Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album liner notes complete the grim destruction of subtlety. For every cut Hubbard has written a brief description of the precise scene she wants to create with her music. It would have been preferable just to read her notes and take the tedium of the album on faith...
Lesley College will take at least two of the four houses it purchased from Harvard last week off the open housing market...
...inflationary way to fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member is collecting a paycheck and can take up the slack. This is a reason why the Federal Reserve Board felt prepared a month ago to put on extremely tight credit clamps, risking a jump in unemployment just as a recession appeared to be developing...
...trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful narrator (Richard Thomas), grow together, like father and son; but in the end none of Katczinsky's advice can save either himself or the doomed class...
...sacrificed everything, it seems, in order to take one last shot at a long-held dream: winning a place on the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner. This is material for a comedy of obsession, the story of a man possessed by a mad and inexplicable passion...