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...source of concern: the private housing field, which accounts for a major proportion of sales of durable goods, continues to take a hammering because of tight mortgage money and towering interest rates. New housing starts in September plunged 14.7% to an annual rate of 1,763,000 units, the sharpest drop in 13 years...
...listened"). While stocking the modern woman's wardrobe (the little black dress, bellbottoms, turtleneck sweaters and costume jewelry), Mademoiselle was also busy needling her friends, enemies, lovers and other contemporaries. Now Psychoanalyst Claude Baillen, a companion of her last years, has put together some of Coco's sharpest jabs in Chanel Solitaire, which was recently published in London...
...last year; now it is well above $45, with bidding often as high as $56 (at that rate, ordinary ground beef would retail for $1.50 or more a lb.). In the past four weeks, the price of cattle destined for feed lots has shown the sharpest rise ever recorded...
...also contended that "confidence for the future is high"-but last week the University of Michigan Survey Research Center reported the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the 22 years that it has been taking soundings. Its index fell from 90.8 at the end of 1972 to 80.8 in February and March of this year. Consumers are deeply afraid of both further inflation and future recession. Ironically, these very ideas are making people rush to buy appliances, cars and houses before prices go even higher and before bad times come; such scare buying tends to prompt exactly the price boosts...
Saul Steinberg has always refused to be photographed: at the desk where he produces some of the sharpest, most visionary cartoons of our time, Steinberg keeps a couple of special masks, made from paper bags and decorated with parodies of his own face, to thwart any would-be portraitist. As if a photograph would catch his image in a distortion he could not control. As if being so revealed would endanger his perspective as self-appointed "inspector" of modern life--a term which is also the title of his new book of cartoons...