Word: downbeater
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...cars set afire by rioters in Liverpool (a sight beloved by television cameramen everywhere) vied on equal visual terms with royal fireworks in London; it was reminiscent of the way television juxtaposed street riots with the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. On CBS, Dan Rather gave an unusually downbeat report on Britain's social unrest, high unemployment and general decline. All three networks interviewed Britons eloquent about problems. Enoch Powell was trotted out, the dour fellow who once warned of a parallel with the river Tiber running red with blood in ancient Rome if "colored" immigration in Britain...
...months of the year by noting that "March came in like a lion and is leaving like a lamb." The President's new independent Economic Policy Advisory Board, which includes former Treasury Secretaries George Shultz and William Simon and former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, was equally downbeat at its first meeting with Reagan last week...
...many of her opinions. "Freedom is very bad for people," she tells Hugo, a platonic male friend, and adds: "I must have been mad to try to pretend that the sexes were much the same." Kate begins to subject her life and career to severe scrutiny, with downbeat results: "She found herself trapped in stale repetition, and depressed by the fact that as everyone else got more interested in Women she became less and less so. The feeling of deep boredom which overcame her when she opened a woman's novel frightened...
...present situation only the U.S. and Britain are reeling. The economies of most of Continental Europe and Japan remain relatively buoyant, with inflation under greater control. This should help U.S. exports and give new strength to the American dollar. Said Heller: "One of the upbeat aspects of a downbeat economy is that real exports will improve." The return to stable economic growth in the U.S. is likely to be slow and arduous. Any quick moves to provide eco-nomic shock treatment would probably only result in another round of inflation. The two sickest sectors of business, housing and autos...
...into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea on behalf of emotion to a cold, insolent spouse. Elvis climaxes musically by extending the verse just short of the chorus, tension building as he fights to squeeze more and more lines into the measures until he rams against the downbeat and spills over, sobbing, into the refrain (which, incidentally, makes no sense...