Word: downers
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...bright, man. Depressing, lacks an upbeat ending, and the opera- house setting is a major turnoff. Broadway audiences are not about to put out + big bucks to watch a downer like that, for crying out loud. Doesn't anybody here have an idea for a hit musical...
...story book of this season, they should leave the last two pages blank. Fill them in yourself. Rewrite the dream. The Final Four in Detroit was a downer...
...downer is that a pyramid payoff requires an ever larger supply of new investors, until eventually the scheme crashes. To protect the unwary, pyramid games have been made illegal in most states. Even so, the craze has spread on college campuses: at the University of Maryland, automated teller machines ran short of cash this month after one high-flying weekend...
Speakes, who would not win a personal popularity contest among the White House media corps, has nurtured the most successful era of public esteem for a President that we have had in the past 40 years, even including the Iran-arms downer. A predecessor, Jody Powell, who was Jimmy Carter's press secretary and might win the corps's popularity vote, presided over a disastrous loss of presidential prestige. Is there cause and effect? Is the great old White House press corps hooked on calamity? Can Good-Guy Marlin break the cycle...
...Queen Nancy," this from the darling of the couturiers? Whispers in Washington still have it that the drug issue was forced on her by the political handlers. In fact, advisers like Mike Deaver and Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless chronicling of the war on drugs, she is holding firm in her conviction that...