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...piece of good news that the economists could offer was some moderation in inflation. After a flirtation with hyperinflation earlier this year, the nation's price-rise fever seems at last to have broken-at least for now. Curbing the price explosion, even at the expense of a recession, has all along been the objective of the Federal Reserve's eight-month-old tight monetary policy. By steadfastly holding down the growth rate of the nation's money supply, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker has pushed interest rates to their highest levels in a century, slowed borrowing...
What everyone obviously hoped for was a film that would do for country-and-western music what Saturday Night Fever did for the disco craze-make a lively, gritty comment on it and earn big bucks too. Like Fever, Urban Cowboy is based on a magazine article (by Co-Scenarist Aaron Latham). The same star, John Travolta, has been recruited to play the lead...
...center -the justification really-for the characters' lives. Director James Bridges, whose last film was the smooth, tight thriller The China Syndrome, does not bring to his realization of the C. and W. scene anything like the dynamic energy, the sheer stylistic force with which John Badham drove Fever. Finally, the electric charge that Travolta jolted into that film is missing here. If he keeps on this way, he will turn out to be not the Brando of the '80s but the Troy Donahue of the decade...
...beleaguered residents, two moderate earthquakes suddenly jolted Mount Margaret, a peak only 13 km (eight miles) northeast of Mount St. Helens. Though scientists emphasized that these seismic disturbances were not hints of an impending eruption, the tremors only added to what might be called a case of tectonic fever on the West Coast. Hundreds of small earthquakes shook the Sierra Nevada in central California, causing landslides and some injuries. At least 100 of the quakes measured above 4.0 on the Richter scale and three reached 6.0 or higher, levels at which there would have been more widespread destruction in populated...
Carter deserves the most blame for irresponsibly aggravating war fever; his absurd statement that the invasion of Afghanistan constituted the gravest threat to world peace since World War II has become a sitting target for commentators. But behind Carter's hysteria stands a serious policy of confrontation with the Soviet Union that makes no sense internationally, though plenty for Carter's domestic political survival...