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...bottle bill and a graduated state income tax. Both lost. This time the stakes are higher. Homeowners pay too much in property taxes right now. To gently increase that burden will hurt not only homeowners but all of Massachusetts. It will make the "tax revolt" experienced so far seem tame by comparison. Approval of Question One is a necessity...
Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame and confined in terms of things natural, wild and free...
...Corral Man-Handler. Finest ground sirloin fit to tame the wildest slaphappetite...
...find either happiness or justice, God ultimately passes his own judgment on their plight. Days of Heaven climaxes with a cleansing, Old Testament plague of locusts-a nighttime Apocalypse so damning that it makes the similar finale of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust seem tame by comparison...
Through no fault of the author, Coucy as a result sounds a bit like a modern corporation president as seen by a tame biographer on the company payroll. On balance, however, her choice of Coucy is a good one. Her choice of the 14th century is brilliant, and her portrait of the period is exciting, artful and solidly based in scholarship. - John Skow