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...many small farming communities the ripple effect is wrenching. In Melbourne, Iowa (pop. 500), a 100-year-old town halfway between Chicago and Omaha, the brick fronts on Main Street were dog-eared before the current recession. But the pervasive gloom is something new. "Our vital signs are not very good in this town," says Gary Northrup, vice president of Melbourne Savings Bank. "Melbourne's best days may be behind it. Farmers have no money to spend. When they hurt, the town dies a little...
...comfy. Here the narrator distances himself from his own chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly the hardships we either endure or ignore. The gloom afflicting Springsteen on this one song with a glimmer of hope shows there are no readily apparent solutions to much that troubles...
...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
Yergin claims that America is suffering from an "oil-glut psychology": oil seems plentiful, OPEC looks to be in shambles, and promises of alternative energy sources seem just one technological step away. With the minds of American consumers and industries on other things, Yergin's doom and gloom approach is not very welcome. However, the appearance of this book and the attendant publicity surrounding it will hopefully begin to change prevailing attitudes. In all, Global Insecurity is a much needed prescription for our energy complacency...
When I went to Iran three months ago, I thought the situation could not get any worse. I was wrong. The ruling clergy have turned Iran into one huge funeral parlor. Death and the related ceremonies are the only diversions available. A thick miasma of repression and gloom has settled on the land...