Word: tenderizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With all the money running through the public's fingers, the Federal Government is beginning to face a legal tender shortage. With the price of copper going up, people are hoarding pennies. A paucity of $50 and $100 bills has been reported in California, where they are widely used in "pyramid clubs" (the modern variation of the old chain letter), which usually require players to contribute $500 or $1,000 in cash. The Saudis also like $100 bills. In May, Saudi Arabian banks took delivery on $250 million in $100s...
...sure that you knew he was helping you." And, Agnew explains, "he usually gave it in cash," on which "he had probably not paid taxes." Anyway, the donor almost surely knew that "in every campaign there was a great need for 'walking around money,' the legal tender for paid election-day workers and for other cash needs that did not look quite right on a detailed election expenditure report." Wisely, it would seem, Agnew "wanted to be insulated from a process which always has gray overtones as to legality...
...drama puts a complacent middle-aging priest, Father Tim Farley (Milo O'Shea), in sometimes stormy but under-lyingly tender conflict with an ardent, rebellious and idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Eric Roberts). In its simplest terms, this is the perennial skirmish between youth and age, between those who have seen too little and those who have seen too much, between those who want to change the world radically and those who have made their abject peace with principalities and powers...
Sidney Hook's attack on certain popular figures [April 28] brings to mind another false idol of our time: Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's purpose was not to bring down the Nazis but that tender sprout of democracy, the Weimar Republic. Rather than undermine the Nazi movement, Brecht et al. made the brown-shirted thugs acceptable to millions of middle-class Germans ("Somebody's got to do something!"), and thus contributed to the eventual rise of Hitler...
Albert would be a solipsistically in ward character, mildly insufferable, if it were not for the extraordinary grace and intelligence of Rogin's prose, which some times accomplishes small, splendid feats of magic. At one point he warns the reader: "What follows is tender and complicated." Exactly...