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...Viet Nam veteran was often portrayed as a murderous psychotic (as in the 1978 movie Taxi Driver) or as a drug-wasted, haunted loser. In Coming Home, he became more sympathetic, though in one character he was a cripple, and in another, bitter and troubled and suicidal. The Deer Hunter ended with an elegiac singing of God Bless America in a blue-collar bar in Pennsylvania. In today's story lines, the Viet Nam vet tends to be a self-reliant hero, muscular and handsome--men like Tom Selleck in TV's Magnum, P.I., or the cartooned heroes...
Yoost like the greenhorn deer hunters in the voods-when they get the lost-they get the panic. They start to run when they get this panic-but in the voods they make a big circle. After they run this big circle three or four times, they fall on the ground, because they are so tried with their tongue hanging out one foot. Then they remember they have the compass and map in their pockits. When they look at map and use compass, they come to their car, only two blocks away. Bet Mike forgot the map and compass...
Alice Walker's fourth book of poetry may surprise readers of The Color Purple, but it is hardly an anticlimactic follow-up to the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. The collection of poem's begins with an almost apologetic quote from Lame Deer, a Sioux medicine man: "For bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey. Horses make a landscape look more beautiful." The reader who expects poems about horses and flowers, however, will be disappointed. Walker's poems are sharp, often political criticisms aimed at contemporary society...
...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...
Hunting season keeps Madison on the run, working twelve hours a day and often at night. Acting on tips, Madison checks up on hunters who may have killed more than the annual limit of one deer and one elk; he is also on the alert for out-of-staters illegally using cheap resident hunting licenses. Once at a road check he arrested some men from Kansas after finding two illegal elk concealed behind a false wall in their camping trailer. Their fines totaled $2,400. They paid cash: 24 $100 bills...