Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upsurge reflected increasing voter outrage over constantly rising property taxes, which climbed 48% to 120% in 1976 alone. "Let the politicians sweat to get their money from somewhere else," says Hal Rolfe, a Los Angeles real estate agent whose own taxes rose from $900 to $2,017 on his Topanga Canyon home and from $540 to $1,913 on his nearby office. A divorced housewife in Van Nuys, Phyllis Waldman, now pays $ 1,568 rather than $750; the home she purchased nine years ago for $32,000 was revalued last July at $ 100,000. A retired engineer in Sacramento...
...dwell on the faults of a production this small, where a critic cannot spread the blame around, or perhaps mitigate his criticism by citing a strong chorus. Maybe that is why the small opening-night audience applauded so enthusiastically--because, what the hell, those guys worked up quite a sweat, and they didn't drop a line. But "workmanlike" should be the last adjective that Anthony Shaffer's scintillating thriller-symphony evokes. A pity, but all too literally, this Sleuth substitutes "uh-lan" for elan...
...temple, the growing beat and deafening volume of the drums and kartals, the sweet incense and the glistening altar seem to inspire the devotees into uncontrolled gesticulations. They are thrown into a frenzy of twirling orange robes, red ribbons, flashing kartals and airborne sweat. The entire congregation leaps on the floor, shouting the mantra, "Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare..." At the end, they fall to their knees...
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...fastest match of the night, Sal D'Agostino pinned his 190-lb. counterpart from Lowell before either wrestler worked up a sweat. D'Agostino raised his record to 10-2 by taking down the Chiefs' Bob Milliard into a pinning combination and flattening Milliard's shoulders in 40 seconds...