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...knows how to keep this stuff moving, if not how to make it moving. Here is a story ripped from today's headlines--BAD TIMES FOR THE SMALL FARMER--filmed in a style of roseate elegy. Everything is romanticized, from Mom biting into the season's first ear of corn to Junior eating Oreos on the cab of the family flatbed truck as God's sun sets behind him. Gibson's baby-faced doggedness and Spacek's ingratiating freckles suit them more for roles as college quarterback and star cheerleader than for hardscrabblers against calamity. But the Hallmark glow...
Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...made his successful run for a Senate seat. The Republicans were able to seize it as Jim Ross Lightfoot, 46, a conservative former radio broadcaster, defeated Democrat Jerry Fitzgerald, 43, a former state representative. Farm issues dominated the campaign in the rural area of cattle ranchers and wheat and corn growers. Reagan had visited the district to help Lightfoot...
...temperate southern regions, by the end of the century. In the meantime, Moscow will have to make up for this year's poor harvest with extensive imports. Ironically, help is coming from the Reagan Administration. Under a new five-year grain-sale pact, the Soviets have been buying corn and wheat from the U.S. at near record levels since July...
When the Senate debate was over at 8 p.m. on Saturday evening. North Carolina's fairgoers returned their energies to cotton candy, corn dogs and ferris wheels...