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...Hockney's main contribution to the stage has been as a colorist. Through the '60s and '70s, opera audiences got used to an intimidating degree of abstraction in sets and costumes-sweeping bare stages with a significant prop or two, or else labyrinths of neo-Bayreuth gloom where spotlights jabbed accusatory fingers through banks of theatrical fog. This design orthodoxy, based on texture, shadow, "sublime" cavelike space, was a necessary reaction against older conventions of the painted background: the unenchanted tempera forest with every stale leaf in place. But it left out color, and the main reason...
Last year, a recession economy cast a shadow of gloom over the Christmas market. But economists are predicting a nationwide increase in gift spending this year, and the current holiday season may prove even more profitable than usual...
...thought it was "a good idea ruined," that futuristic fable he had planned on calling The Last Man in Europe. But he was always pessimistic about his own writing. This time the gloom was deepened by illness. His tuberculosis had worsened. The task of typing and revising the manuscript had broken him physically. He lay in a sanatorium bed when his book was published, in June 1949; the name that appeared on its cover was Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...addition to pushing unpopular programs, Feldstein has undermined his credibility with a series of inaccurate economic forecasts. Last January he projected that business would grow only 3.1% this year. That low forecast earned him the nickname "Dr. Gloom." He has since revised that figure an embarrassing four times, and now predicts that the G.N.P. will increase 6% to 6.5% this year. Says one White House observer: "This record reinforces Reagan's tendency to disregard the doomsaying of economists generally and to follow his instincts instead...
...ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment rate may bring joy, gloom or, frequently, bewilderment, but they are anxiously surveyed nowadays by millions...