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...resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms. For his part, Book suppresses his city smarts and treads as carefully around his hosts' feelings as he does around the cows in the barn. At best he and the Amish achieve tolerance...
...irreconcilability stems from a feeling on the part of Australian Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli) that he was himself a stranger in a curious corner of a strange land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book may help with a barn raising, and win respect for his carpentry, but that does not make him anyone's new best friend. Rachel may dance with him to a tune they hear on his forbidden car radio, or finally embrace him hungrily, but that does not mean that they will go off together. Young...
...like a failure," says Charles Boehmke, 44, who is clinging to his Minnesota farm after losing his animals and machinery because he could not repay a $136,000 loan. One of his neighbors, David Honsey, 40, filed for bankruptcy and said it made him feel like going into the barn and "doing something you shouldn't do there." He has since rejected thoughts of suicide, deciding "there is a higher power than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. But I think they'll find a few farmers in the barn rafters before this is over." (Actually, there are signs that suicides...
...fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do. They reject the argument of Budget Director David Stockman that they are to blame for their troubles. "I'd like to get about 15 minutes behind the barn with that dude," says Tom Kersey, 45, a Georgia farmer who helped lead "tractorcade" protests to Washington...
Senior Co-Captain Joe Carrabino is, of couse, the big guy. Princeton's only hope of winning-tonight, according to Carril, is to "hope that Carrabino doesn't get out of the barn -whatever that means...