Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Orwellian year of 1984, bad news can be good news, at least where the economy is concerned. The Commerce Department announced last week that the index of leading economic indicators dipped .8% in July after falling 1.3% in June. The report marked the first time since early 1982 that the closely watched barometer of future economic activity has dropped in two consecutive months, and thus suggested that the economy is slowing. Ordinarily, that would be a danger signal, but the White House welcomed the Commerce announcement as a sign that moderating growth will encourage interest rates to fall...
...legal wilderness abroad is totally bewildering. A group of West European justice ministers meeting in Strasbourg tried to work out some international policies on reproduction technology, but they gave up in despair. In Germany, where there are no laws either permitting or forbidding surrogate motherhood, a man in Bad Oeynhausen was fined $1,750 for advertising for a woman willing to gestate an embryo and then give the child up for adoption to a childless couple. Before he could find such a woman, he was fined because the law forbids any ads in connection with adoptions...
...photographs showed a bikini-clad Princess Stephanie, 19, and Anthony Delon, 19, the bad-boy son of French Actor Alain Delon, frolicking on the beach "in tender insolence." But to Monaco's royal family the only insolence was in the behavior of Paris Match. The Aug. 17 issue featured an eight-page spread detailing the triangular affair of Princess, Delon and her longtime boyfriend Paul Belmondo, 21, son of the actor Jean-Paul. The palace went to court, claiming an invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis...
...intimidated by me. That is very bad." So sighs Nastassja Kinski, 23, about her failed romances. On screen, art imitates life. In Maria's Lovers, shown last week as the opening feature of the Venice film festival, Kinski plays the granddaughter of Eastern Europeans who is smitten by a naive Midwestern boy, played by John Savage, 35. While her sweetheart is away fighting in World War II, Maria becomes involved with another man. This sets the stage for what Kinski found to be "the most difficult scenes: where Maria's returned sweetheart cannot make love to her because...
...pays $700 apiece for his jackets, but his trousers are always too short, just as they were when he won the contest that launched his singing career 26 years ago. He leaves the table if salt is spilled, and if he hears very bad news, he sends his clothes, underwear and socks included, straight to the incinerator. When he begins a seven-day engagement at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall this week, Julio Iglesias will of course knock wood several times before he goes onstage. How else will he ever succeed with that fickle and unpredictable creature...