Word: forecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuck them in your ear, for instance, or fed them to a janitor, you can count on "pleasant social times ahead." The entry under "Pickle" is more or less what the amateur would expect: "overall satisfaction with the general state of your life, love, and pursuit of happiness is forecast." "Petunia" shows a need for professional guidance. Growing outdoors, "these flowers signify pleasant friendly social affairs." A petunia indoors foretells "a period of boredom...
...dispatch from the future will go back to bed, close his eyes and pay attention. It may be possible to rig the game; there seems to be no rule against trying to dream of nasturtiums ("an unusual sexual experience"), garbage ("future success") and buffaloes ("large profits are forecast"), while avoiding grasshoppers ("confusion and complexities ahead") and giraffes ("a warning not to meddle in other people's affairs...
...Communists, and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, the first Establishment candidate to win a shot at the Elysée without the support of the Gaullist old guard. If the polls are to be believed, the race could hardly be tighter: one French forecast gave Giscard 51 % of the vote and Mitterrand 49% in the runoff...
...rather insulting, now, I suspect, to be shown pictures like the close-up of lovers' hands stretching toward each other and failing to touch as the forecast of Gatsby's and Daisy's ill-fated love; or scenes of Gatsby and Daisy gamboling through sun-dappled gardens spliced with shots of cooing geese as lovers' bliss; and what of the countless times the camera peers through Daisy's diaphonous hatbrim to watch her kissed--stolen kisses? And there is more of this comic strip stuff, too much more. The camera injects twinkling into everybody's eyes--or are the actors...
Brandt's reluctance to assume the mantle of leadership in Western Europe may well help make good a depressing forecast by many Community watchers...