Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payment from tax evaders, mainly by withholding taxes on their interest and stock dividends. It was true, as he said in Montana, that "the tax bill . . . will not raise income taxes on the average American." If the bill does not pass, Reagan warned the balky Congressmen, the deficit would soar, and interest rates might reach "16% in November"-when all House members face reelection. That might be rough for them, but it would be "disastrous" for the economy, Reagan said. "He's a very persuasive man," observed Delaware Republican Thomas Evans after the meeting. "I could see some...
Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where Von Richthofen is housed, has been in a serious dramatic slump for the past two seasons. Surely, the one way not to soar again is to jettison sense, taste and judgment. -By T.E. Kalem
...airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches, which soar out over the valley. From there the house sort of tumbles past the library, guest rooms and such, down to the swimming pool. With its openness, silver-gray metal trim, geometric furniture and automobile headlights used as wall lights, the house was a triumph of new design and engineering...
...balky siblings gravely crimp this Broadway Joe's ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens, the $40-a-week rug salesman (with a shoeshine parlor on the side) manages to realize a few grandiose immigrant dreams. With his employer, the mysterious, immensely rich Mr. Fernand Sarrafian, senior partner of the Sarrafian Brothers carpet empire, Stavros investigates new worlds, from race tracks...
...dimmed by the fact that she is the daughter of Stavros' immediate boss and chief tormentor at the store. During World War I, Stavros has magnificent visions of a Greater Greece, when the wicked Turks will be laid low as the profits in rugs soar skyward. They almost come true. Meanwhile, the sisters grow older and unhappier. Of his favorite, Eleni, he remarks, "Her chest now was as flat as her back and the lines around her eyes had deepened . . . He remembered the soft-skinned, soft-eyed girl who'd arrived in America ten years before. The prettiest...