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...revolution," declared a member of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy's staff. "It's a total reversal-the change is going to be drastic," said an aide to one of the Senate's few surviving liberal Republicans, Maryland's Charles Mathias. The gloom and foreboding among the anonymous legislative technicians who had hitched their careers to long-dominant Democrats and once fashionable moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate were symbolic of the postelection upheaval on Capitol Hill. Aides who could joke at the prospect of soon being out of a job mimicked Paul Revere: "The conservatives...
Though few businessmen or bankers anticipate very much more than a sluggish and lackluster year ahead, most regard even that as an improvement over what might have been. Reports George Cloos, economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: "There is not the gloom and despair that existed last spring. Some of the fear is gone...
Caught between the two streams of traffic, in the gloom of Memorial Hall and Harvard's wardead...And he: 'Don't you loathe to be compared with your relatives? I do. I've just found two of mine reviewed by Poe. He wiped the floor with them...and I was delighted...
...MUSIC BOWIE employs on Scary Monsters matches this consciousness of sub-terranean gloom: it is shuddering, dissonant, ponderous, complex. "Scream Like a Baby" opens with a thud from George Murray's bass and a wail from Bowie; then, to a leaden bass drum beat and descending synthesized tones it tells a story of pointless assimilation...
...manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...