Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheese surpluses. In 1973 the Government purchased only 1.9% of milk products, but by 1980 its share of the market had grown to 7%. In 1981, in a feeble stab at slowing production, Congress dropped parity as an index and froze the price at $13.10 per hundredweight. Still production rose. In 1983 the Government bought 12% of all dairy products and stored away an incredible 17 billion lbs. of butter, cheese and dried milk. The cost to taxpayers had risen from $136 million in 1973 to more than $2 billion. Congress in 1983 dropped the support price...
...whole. Social Security payments, tied by a 1972 law to the rate of inflation, went up 46% in real terms since 1970, while wages and salaries of people still working withered by 7%. Prices increased 312% between 1950 and 1983. During that same period, wages and salaries rose 412%, but the typical monthly Social Security payment jumped 905%. Says the report: "Thus younger families have had to work more to keep up with inflation; older families have...
Against this complexity of emotion. Radford masterfully exploits the iciness of Richard Burton's Inner Party member, O'Brien. Whether torturing or consoling, Burton never moves a facial muscle or changes an inflection. He is the ideal Party member, a living synthesis of rose dogma spouted without intellect or feeling. Burton's coldly surreal performance is as horrifying as the best Becket...
Buckets of dry ice sent vapors swirling through the Government Printing Office. As the cold steam rose around them, White House aides swathed in heavy sweaters and long scarves handed journalists advance copies of the federal budget for fiscal 1986. For mood music, they piped in the sound track from The Big Chill...
...stories of Dead niceness. Kathleen from New Hampshire says that last fall at Augusta, Me., she was stopped at the door when someone sold her a counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just before a concert and you hear an LSD vendor saying, "Trips, trips," without moving his mouth. "Yeah," says Monica from Santa Monica, Calif., a pale 20-year-old who looks 14. "My girlfriend was using...