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...predictable, but good, realistic, almost earthy comedy writing on television is not. Neither is the show's third major character, Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). She is sleepy-voiced, sad-eyed and overweight from trying to eat her way out of a mild but chronic depression. In short, like so many characters emerging from the Moore atelier, she is a type we know better from our daily rounds than we do from our nightly viewing: an individual waging a quiet, stubborn struggle to stay on the sunny side of neurosis. She succeeds, as do most...
Little has been done to halt the country's serious economic drift. The leaders of the Armed Forces Movement (A.F.M.) inherited a high rate of inflation (currently 30% a year) and a chronic balance of trade deficit (expected to be $500 million this year), when they took power in April. But since then lack of confidence in the political future has made the problem worse. "Business hates a system where the rules of the game are not known," complains a leading Lisbon oil executive. "The government holds marathon sessions and argues and argues, but it never makes a decision...
...conservatives and helped to convince all of the party's factions that it would take a centrist-not a man at either extreme-to win the next presidential election. In 1966 Nixon barnstormed so energetically for Republican Congressmen and Governors that an irritated Lyndon Johnson labeled him a "chronic campaigner...
Provoked largely by the fear of even more inflation to come, labor unrest is spreading. There have already been strikes and demands for wage increases by airline employees, policemen and lumbermill workers. Other chronic troubles are the country's economic dependence on imports (50% of its manufactured goods) and the smoldering but deeply felt antagonisms between French-and English-speaking Canadians and between Canada's regions, East and West...
...magnitude of today's problems could easily lead to a chronic sense of helplessness...