The effect on the economy of deflated assets, tighter credit and costlier energy are already apparent. Fewer people are buying homes, and the ones they buy tend to be smaller and less opulent. In 2008 the median size of a new home shrank for the first time in 13 years. The number of credit cards in circulation has declined by almost a fifth. American Express is pulling back from credit cards and
Half as long.
So while my friends spent their days at Missoula Elementary...
I stayed home and learned to write the American language.
Again, halt as long.
Good. Now throw it away.
Norman! Norman!
Wait for your brother!
However, there was a balance to my fathers system.
Every afternoon I was set free...
untutored and untouched till supper...
to learn on my own the natural side of Gods o
Salvation Armys
over on Fourth Street.
- These will be perfect.
- Huh? Perfect for what?
Listen, will you
do me a favor?
I worked in a department store
for half of my life.
If you dont buy something,
you put it back.
Herbie...
happy anniversary.
- That was yesterday.
- Go ahead, open it.
"Mexico and the Yucatn.
"Witness the spectacle
of a rare solar eclipse...
from the foot of the Mayan pyramids.
Lighting
of the Tree! How bout that!
The merry Consumers stop to watch the Ice Princess scurry *
to an IMMENSE VIBRANTLY MULTI-COLORED BUTTON and press it
down. This causes a mammoth Christmas Tree to light up.
The crowd erupts in aahs and oohs. *
10 INT. A VERTICAL SEWER GRATE--EVENING 10
Through a grand, vertical half-circle sewer grate, an
older pair of strange eyes peer. Taking the point
Salvation
in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Reverend Willard Willman, Pastor.
And now, music throughout the night.
Music in a mellow mood.
- Grandma!
- What happened?
- Look!
- What happened?
Dont touch that radio! Dont touch it!
Turn it up! Turn it up!
Ive never heard music like this before!
It speaks to me! Taj! Dad!
This is unbelievable. Now watch.
Yeah?
Well, if this is out there,
think how much mo