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...they are coming at a price much higher than the Administration had expected the nation to pay. "None of us has predicted" an outright slump, Reagan confessed at his press conference last week. Now, however, Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan says the current quarter "may be a real downer." Moreover, while some Administration forecasters had earlier predicted a recovery beginning shortly after New Year...
...stuff, just transferred addictions. The government says we can't do dope, so we line up at the juice center and get methodone instead. Half the junkies out there are addicted to methodone and mixing it with other drugs. When I was on methadone, because it was such a downer, I would get my treatment dose, start to nod, them mix it with a little coke so I could keep tuned in. The withdrawal from methadone is far more severe than from heroin, and it takes months to get it out of your body system." The treatment, partly because...
Also missing is Latham's original point about the place and its habitues, which was a downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being...
...season ends for the Crimson racquetmen--sort of. They still await a celebration dinner downtown. "There's only one match left--a dinner at Locke-Ober's. You can bet we'll win that one," Tony Downer, two-year team manager, said yesterday...
...have a common failing: they are scared stiff of stillness. There are no intentional laughs in either movie,and nobody smiles. The actors are too busy being realistic. And finally, the atmosphere of each becomes oppressive: the popcorn gets stuck in your throat. Existentially, Alien is more of a downer than Waiting for Godot. Beckett pins some hopes on the human spirit and personality; Alien presents people as walking red meat and pus for greedy lobsters...