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...production and growing unemployment made a turn toward more stimulus of the economy unavoidable. As car sales continued to skid, Detroit announced plans for more production cutbacks; that will add substantially to the 205,000 auto workers -about 25% of the auto-industry labor force-already idled and further bloat the nation's jobless rate, which is expected to swell to as much as 8% next year from its present 6.5%. According to a forecast issued by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development last week, the U.S. will be the "most depressed" of the world...
...medical dictionary of the theater should ever appear, one entry would be a grotesque disease known as O'Horganitis. Its chief aspect is the metastasis of spectacle over substance. Its subsymptoms are bloat, inanity, hallucination, sexual kinkiness and contagious vulgarity. The disease reached plague proportions in the late '60s, but sporadic outbreaks still occur; and if one wishes to be mortally infected, the place to go is Manhattan's Beacon Theater where Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road is on germy display...
...small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment. Instead, it gets a full-scale Hollywood production. There is a Panavision screen that does not enlarge the proceedings so much as bloat them, color photography that seems poured over the film like a thickening gravy, and a stereophonic sound system that blares the music at high volume and low impact...
Stagger and Bloat...
...Fortunately, the rules call for a Friday weigh-in and a Saturday race. If an oarsman can stagger onto the scales at 160 pounds on Friday afternoon, he is then free to bloat himself and regain his strength for Saturday's race...