Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dodgers added another tally in the ninth as Garvey powered a Sparky Lyle pitch (doesn't he ever get tired?) into the left-field stands. Lyle, it should be noted, came in after the third Yankee hurler, rookie Ken Clay, pitched three perfect innings of relief. Clay and Tidrow actually held the Dodgers scoreless for 5-2/3 innings...
...have no intention of getting into a long battle for Miles-and besides Washington trustbusters are examining whether the acquisition would violate antitrust laws. Should they oppose the takeover, the traders who have grabbed up Miles stock may need some of Alka-Seltzer's plop, plop, fizz, fizz relief...
...title character who gives the film its thrust. "Short Eyes" is prison slang for child molester, the one kind of felon all the others deplore, and when Prisoner Clark Davis (Bruce Davison) arrives at the Tombs, the moral and emotional tensions of the cell block are brought into powerful relief. Like Eugene O'Neill's Iceman, Davis is a crackerjack theatrical device; thanks to Davison's finely shaded performance, he is also the most disturbing character in a film full of blistered souls...
...idea: a law that would make it profitable for talented Irishmen to stay put -and for talented foreigners to immigrate-by granting tax exemptions on income from creative work. In the eight years since Haughey steered his unique bill into law, 978 people have applied for tax relief. More than 600, including 100 foreigners, have been greatly relieved...
Richard Condon Solitude, not tax relief, brought Novelist Condon and his wife Evelyn to Ireland in 1970 (as an American, he must pay U.S. taxes even though he lives abroad). A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million and has sold five novels (including The Manchurian Candidate) to Hollywood. Currently he is writing political novel No. 12, to be called Death of a Politician. In his salmon pink 19-room mansion in Kilkenny, Condon works on his potboilers seven hours a day, seven days a week for ten weeks at a stretch...