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...young may be absorbing the new atmospherics from movies and TV. Five years ago, the nation watched a crop of elegiac Viet Nam movies such as Coming Home and The Deer Hunter. At the end of The Deer Hunter, when the hero has returned home, the crowd in a dingy bar in a Pennsylvania steel town sings God Bless America, but sings it so thinly and tentatively that the hymn becomes not an affirmation of the nation but a wistful dirge, the memory of something that the war destroyed. Today, the tones of patriotism in entertainment are loud and clear...
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...
...will remember 1984 not as the year of Big Brother but as the year of living dangerously. Last week the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation closed down the insolvent University Bank of Wichita, bringing to 76 the number of insured banks that have folded this year. That is the largest crop of bank failures since the Depression year of 1938 but far short of the 4,000 bank collapses in 1933, when Congress set up the FDIC to restore confidence in the financial system...
That's the major obstacle Harvard will have to hurdle this year, but with virtually all its starters back and with the promising crop of freshmen in town. McLaughlin & Co. seem confident...
...stages are being constructed all over the city. The flamboyant North Carolina film producer Earl Owensby who already owns one studio in Shelby, N.C., is building another: an ambitious 426-acre facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which also includes a theme park. Texas, which last year yielded a bumper crop of Academy Award-nominated films-Terms of Endearment, Silkwood and Tender Mercies-boasts a new 20-acre communications complex just west of Dallas that has state-of-the-art production facilities. Moreover, ground has recently been broken for what is billed as the largest sound stage in the world...