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Todd Solondz's celebrated new film "Welcome to the Dollhouse" brings a tight focus to a circle of hell never before examined on the silver screen--junior high. With relentless detail, Solondz recalls a world of harlequin posters, crop tops, and the first birthday parties where you didn't invite everyone in the class. But the film falters when Solondz pans out, stretches the plot, and attempts to shift from brutal realism to the much more abstract genre of farce...
...that land were foreclosed after the Clarks stopped making payments. Emmett's grandson Dean, 30, then tried to save the family holdings by buying 3,000 acres back at auction--but stands to lose them again because the siege has prevented him from getting last year's wheat crop to market or this year's crop in the ground. Last fall, when Dean tried to retrieve stored wheat from the silos at his grandfather's [foreclosed] farm, his father Richard, 47--who later turned himself in and is now in jail awaiting trial on Freemen-related charges--chased...
Meanwhile, the FBI has blocked all access to the adjacent acreage. Unless Dean can plant a new crop of spring wheat by mid-June, he will have no revenue for meeting his mortgage payments. Still desperately trying to strike a deal with the FBI, Dean will not give interviews...
...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...
...some safeguards began being phased out this year, as the 1996 drought was building. The new Freedom to Farm Act represents an attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster-relief bills with a system of fixed cash subsidies and low-cost, $50-per-crop insurance. Given these benefits, the reasoning went, farmers would be able to tide themselves over rough times without requiring ad hoc handouts. Almost no one thought this theory would be subjected to such a stern test so soon after the bill's passage...