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...SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE. A 1991 survey conducted by the Gediman Research Group found that 64% of affluent Americans are more concerned with enjoying a comfortable retirement than leaving behind a sizable estate. "I'm free of guilt," says William McCarty, 66, a former grain and cattle farmer from Sheldon, Iowa, who has traveled to China and Russia since retiring. Next month he's off to Germany and Italy. "I keep telling my sons that I'm not going until it's all gone...
...upbringing and put himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning. At 65 he's already spent a decade wrestling with Mister Watson, the fierce and accursed and untamable killer who was, by all accounts, "a good husband and a loving father, an expert and dedicated farmer, successful businessman and good neighbor...
...wariness and instant reactions. Less fancifully, she's Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston, playing what she is, a pop diva crossing over to the movies, though it's unlikely that she will be up for an Oscar the first time out, as is the fictional Rachel). He's Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), reluctantly signed on to provide security for her after death threats have been received...
...free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...
VLADIMIR IVANYUSHKIN Farmer As the 43-year-old farmer proudly surveys his freshly painted beehives and rabbit hutches, architects are reviewing plans to restore the village church, lately a warehouse. "It will cost me a lot," says Vladimir Ivanyushkin, "but it's important. It's not just the farm we want to restore here, it's the tradition." The village of Staroye Leskovo, 180 miles from Moscow, was once the estate of an old Russian noble family managed by Ivanyushkin's grandfather, famous for its Thoroughbred racing horses. Seventy years of Soviet control laid waste to the estate...