Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems only reasonable that the more a person's house increases in value, the happier he will be. Yet for millions of homeowners that is not the case at all. As inflation pushes housing prices through the roof, property taxes are shooting up as well, ripping gaping holes in family budgets and sending homeowners into angry protests against local taxes and spending of all sorts. Says James Tobin, president of the National Taxpayers United of Illinois: "People are in a rebellious mood. They feel school taxes are out of control when they have to pay for courses on kindness...
...round with St. Louis cops. Spotted driving into a restaurant parking lot at 4 a.m. with the lights out, Spinks was stopped by police. Again, no license could be produced. Worse, police found a small sack containing white powder tucked in Spinks' hat, which he tossed on the roof of his car while he was being questioned. The hero of fisticuffs was then snapped into handcuffs to be investigated for possible drug violations...
...Secretary Joseph Califano and a group of college presidents to discuss problems of higher education. In the fall, HEW launched Operation Common Sense, a comprehensive effort to review, simplify and recodify regulations. Last week, in a further effort to bring a number of widely scattered programs under one roof, Carter proposed the establishment of a new Department of Education...
...herself, like a slightly underfilled waterbed: push on the thrust-out derriere and the chest doubles in size. This kind of physical characterization requires uncanny discipline, and when she marshals all that energy into a number like "Heaven Hop," she and the four accompanying "Angels" blow the roof off. And Devall Patrick's Sir Evelyn Oakleigh is a marvelous British boob, fastidiously fingering his collar while pinpointing certain parliamentary vowel sounds...
...able to recognize people whose religion is not a nationality, but whose nationality was a place of birth," says Green. "I wanted a real German family, the equivalent of American Jews who think of themselves first as Americans. We didn't want to do Fiddler on the Roof Jews, although they were prime victims of the Holocaust. We were afraid they would vitiate what we were trying to do-appeal to a broad audience." Though the Weisses are products of Green's imagination, the historical framework of Holocaust is, of course, not. The show was exhaustively researched. Besides...