Word: autumns
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...autumn, the friends spare a thought for their children, particularly Lisa Callan (Beatrice Alda), the college-student daughter of the newly broken marriage. Depression has rendered her almost completely inarticulate, well beyond the reach of parental jolly-ups. Meantime, Kate Burroughs has reached the crockery-throwing stage. The unfailing reasonableness of her husband, she decides, is a mask for emotional impoverishment...
Most businessmen, bankers and economists, however, are more sanguine about the future course of interest rates than either the pessimists or Regan. They generally see the prime rate peaking at about 20%, perhaps a little higher, but then falling back to 15% or so by autumn. Other short-term rates will probably do the same. Walter Heller, President Kennedy's chief economic adviser, expects that an economic slowdown in the next month or two will pull down the cost of borrowing money. John E. Barnds, vice president, business and banking analysis at the National Bank of Detroit, feels...
...weak oil market is now putting OPEC on the spot. During 1980, the cartel's production dropped to nearly a decade low of 27 million bbl. a day, even though Saudi Arabia, the group's single biggest producer, has since last autumn been pumping daily almost 2 million bbl. over and above its self-imposed output ceiling of 8.5 million...
Past the classic first editions bound in leather, pages leafed in gold. Past the photographs, all framed in hand-worked silver. Past the old oak tables crowded with souvenirs of distant, long-lived lives, toward a deep chair washed in the dim gold light of a British late autumn...
...STARE AWAY at Michelle bathing, at Manon padding about the house in torn outgrown pajamas, at Guy sweating and drooling in his sleep. The movie is so permeated by the crisp snap-crackle-pop of late autumn in the mountains, so unabashed before the imperfect facts of life (like flat tires, cracked boots and dirty dishes), that the ugliness takes on an indefinable glow, Les Bons Debarras tells it like it is, but in the process manages to make it magic...