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It is exempt from state and local taxes, so it escapes having to pay an estimated $300 million a year into the parched District treasury.
Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.
Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.
3. In addition to supposedly mimicking "a parched man finally led to water"-- what on earth does this mean?
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.