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...Conference Board reported that its Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 106.8 in February, down from an already lousy 115.7 in January. That's five consecutive monthly drops in the 5,000-family survey, and it tells us that on the whole, folks are glum and getting glummer about their near-term economic prospects. Which means they can't be counted on to prop up the economy with their open wallets...
...medieval saints believed in Jesus, with a fervor bordering on lust, Rosetta believes in employment. Work is her religion: when she gets it, she does it harder (and glummer) than anyone else. When she has no job, she focuses on getting one so maniacally that she is in danger of destroying herself and the one fellow who befriends her. In the trailer park where she lives with her slutty, alcoholic mother, she methodically does the chores. For Rosetta, living is one job she can't lose. Unless she fires--kills--herself. And when she does decide to commit suicide...
...GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...Whose wish--just to think of it makes us all glummer--Is to have no Crimson around in the summer...
...details of the ninth Five-Year Plan, which Brezhnev had expounded in glowing generalities at the start of the Congress. Where Brezhnev, for instance, had announced a grandiose family-allowance plan for everyone earning less than $55 a month-which means one-sixth of the population-Kosygin brought the glummer news that the plan would not take effect until 1974. Even then, the value of free medical care and education would be added in calculating income. That would considerably reduce the number of Soviet citizens who stand to benefit...