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After a while prolific artists cannibalize their own work: You 're a Big Girl Now is a lesser Just Like a Woman. From a working poet, a line like "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn" is a dismal cliche...
...heat, the lean and the tension of his work do not allow him to sleep, but instead compel him to turn on an all night local country music station, which he plass so loud that no one else in the house is able to sleep either. Finally, usually around dawn, Paul's father drops off to sleep in a chair, even though the music from she radio is at least loud enough to stifle out the leaguing sounds of the mill's machines, which make conversation below a scream impossible, and the sensation of the blast furnace's heat, which...
Paul tells me that these moments between midnight and dawn are probably his father's happiest his "tree time." They are certainly the only time when he can escape from the human being transformed into machine existence of the factory and listen silently while other people sing to him about divorces, unhappy love successful love rural roots, homesickness, and dreams. Perhaps Paul's father listens to Merle Haggard sing...
...Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...gray dawn ten years ago, five U.S. soldiers were killed and twelve wounded during a Communist commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province...