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This may be fertile ground, and taps a background of accusations (against the incumbent mayor's father, against the circuit clerk) and intrigue (about a mysterious murder, and about the mayor himself being barred for life from federal projects after allegedly defaulting on an $8 million HUD loan).
But when you have paid it all, the New York City Department of Taxation and Finance taps you on a figurative shoulder, reminds you that the city also has an Unincorporated Business Tax, and states firmly that free-lance writers gotta pay this too.
"He is not better than a trained or 'insider' artist," writes Stevens, "but he taps sources of power now lost to sophisticated art."
I love how Tony taps his shoes with hostile insecurity and looks around at the psychiatrist's weird doctor's-office art, avoiding her eyes as he refuses to talk, the way patients do.
"We have nothing against the Hillies," says Jacklyn, a GS-11, as she taps her ubiquitous identity badge nervously on the table.