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Boone, N.C., is WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM, and where the Luther family, under the reluctant direction of 14-year-old Mary Call, is struggling to make do. Father, widowed years ago, has died. On his deathbed he placed Mary Call (more responsible than her dreamy older sister Devola) in charge of all Luther business, including the matter of keeping Kiser Pease, the acquisitive neighbor down the road, a good country mile away from Devola, Most of the movie is taken up with Mary Call's straining to live up to her responsibility, to fulfill a promise made mistakenly...
Beyond physical details, Where the Lilies Bloom misses any real sense of the proud and strangled lives it portrays Mary Call and the others never really show any deep desperation. The movie softens everything, keeps the characters busy with practical strategies like convincing the neighbors that their father is still alive so that they will not all be shipped off to an orphanage...
...struggles of another Southern mountain family. Like John-Boy Walton, Mary Call wants to be a writer, and Hamner supplies reveries for her ("Lately I've begun to feel a bottomless fright") that have much less adolescent intensity than a kind of brilliantined adult sentimentality. Where the Lilies Bloom was made as a G-rated family movie, which is the probable reason- though hardly a good excuse- for avoiding the harsher, more pressing realities of the situation the movie portrays. It wants to be liked for its good intentions alone...
Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins of the University of Edinburgh is trying to make computer models of the way people produce sentences and understand language. Floyd Bloom, 37, chief of the laboratory of neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., and Walle Nauta, 57, of M.I.T., are using special staining techniques to trace the brain's neuronal pathways. "We have a long way to go," says Bloom, "but every little piece of information we gather leads us toward a better understanding of the way that the brain reacts to the outside world...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...