Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fiddling with the door lock on the Tudor-style mansion, Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...shower, and sometimes there is hot water. Then the serious work begins: filling sandbags. By continuously building new bunkers, each requiring hundreds of sandbags, the Marines can spread themselves more thinly, reducing casualties from a direct hit. Trees cut from the banks of a foul-smelling nearby creek provide supporting timbers. Says Staff Sergeant David Stout, 28, of Charlie Company, whose platoon calls itself the Ebony and Ivory Construction Co. for its racial mix: "The order of the day is sandbags and more sandbags and more sandbags, and then you'll sleep tight...
...CROSS CREEK Directed by Martin Ritt Screenplay by Dalene Young
...frustrated newspaper writer, left the cold North and set up residence in the lush remoteness of central Florida. The therapy was successful. She found herself; she found a pleasant local fellow whom she later married; she discovered a passel of good friends in the cracker families living around the creek bend; and out of her experiences she wrote the novel that made her famous, The Yearling, and later her memoir, Cross Creek...
...fashioned Hollywood weepies demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true...