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...some of the things she was warned against are special. Avoid instant grits. Do not use self-rising flour, because it is full of soda and baking powder. Do not cook with salt pork. Use yeast-leavened bread. The course also gives instruction on how to make low-sodium corn bread and biscuits. Recalls Taylor: "Before my taste buds adjusted, the squash, the okra just tasted yukky. But I finally got used to it. Now the thought of eating salted nuts makes me think I'm eating brine." Most of the advice Taylor received would be useful anywhere. Avoid...
Agriculture. Farmers traditionally borrow heavily in order, among other things, to finance planting and machinery purchases, paying off the loans when they sell their crops. For some, the costs are becoming ruinous. In northwest Wisconsin, Walter Betzel grossed $100,000 last year from his 350 acres of corn and oats and his 30 milk cows. Some $19,000 of the amount went right off the top for interest payments. After his interest and other operating expenses, Betzel had $5,000 left to spend on his wife and three children. Says he: "We're sick...
...land of corn. Iowans clearly lend an ear to learning...
...movie's stickiness stems from its overwhelming sentimentality. It is a piece of high corn, shot through with the kind of cheesy sentimentality one ordinarily finds on TV shows like Family--the kind that are below even The Waltons The script, adapted by adapted Thompson from his 1978 Broadway play of the same name, is sappy. the characters are to varying degrees flat, and the emotional neatness of the whole is a bit stilling...
...CORN has to be crap On Gold Pond is reminiscent of another film that is certainly not discardable--Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Both movies have the same wild American optimism that everything can be overcome, that no problem is too much for well-meaning people. It's Wonderful Life was much more carefully crafted. Its direction was far better than Mark Rydell's in On Golden Pond; Capra's film avoids the dippy touches like shots of water lillies set to flute music and the cozy nature symbolism that pervade the Pond. Still, both films...