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...friend Horace Busby, who used to work for Lyndon Johnson, fired off a good shot the other day in his newsletter. He wrote that the Democratic National Committee seemed to gloat when unemployment went above 10%. "Political perversity," he called it. I'm going to go over to the D.N.C. if unemployment goes below 10% and get one of their handouts to send to you. Don't expect too much. Its adjectives for rising unemployment include "criminal," "devastating," "disastrous." Those for falling unemployment include "temporary," "doubtful" and "unexplained...
There was banner-headline boasting. "More people relived the war than fought in it," trumpeted the newspaper ad ABC took in seven newspapers and six trade papers to gloat over the ratings storm blown up by The Winds of War. The 18-hour, $40 million extravaganza averaged a 38.6 rating and a hefty 53 share of the audience, placing it close behind the 1977 Roots-also aired by ABC-as the highest-rated mini-series in television history. Said ABC President John Severino: "Absolutely sensational! We're elated...
...pipeline sanctions were extended in June to include foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms and foreign companies holding licenses for U.S. technology. But instead of hurting the Soviets, the sanctions seem to be playing right into Moscow's hands. Observed the French newspaper Le Monde: "Now Mr. Brezhnev can gloat. Less than three months after all that hugging and embracing at the Versailles summit, Western solidarity is shaken to its foundations...
...Yale Daily once described Rudy's located on Elm St. as the "ultimate rowdy drinking place, carved up tables, varsity pictures and all." We tend to agree. Go here and gloat if Harvard wins, stay away if we lose. This is where you will find the Eli football team after the game, so gloat cautiously...
...legitimate hit, even by Rolling Stones standards, and along with several other songs, it provides a powerful reminder of how pure and how sweet the simplicity of real rock and roll can be. Yet there is certainly little innovation on this record, and over that the skeptics will gloat. Once again the faithful will search desperately, as they have for much of the past decade, for an explanation: why do I get excited about the Stones today, this minute, when I know the days of real creativity and passion are over...