Word: farmsteads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with Albert Lea. For most of this century, Wilson Foods operated that pork plant and was the town's largest employer. Wilson fell on hard times in the early 1980s, cut workers' average annual pay from $22,200 to $16,600 and eventually sold the plant to Farmstead Foods. In turn, that company went belly-up a few years later, after it lost its biggest customer--Wilson. Then, in December 1990, just as workers were receiving the last of their unemployment checks, Seaboard appeared...
...lesson was about to unfold, all right--a textbook study of the fickle results of corporate welfare. Seaboard was unable to attract enough workers from Albert Lea to run the plant. Many former Farmstead employees had already left the area in search of work. More than 100 had retired. Still others declined to work for Seaboard wages--$4,500 a year less than the plant's 1983 wage, and no vacation the first year...
...COLD, FLAT STRETCHES of Garfield County, Montana, the self-proclaimed Justus Township is a bump on the taut horizon. fbi agents wearing flak vests and side arms who kept watch on the place last week saw a farmstead sprawl of family houses, cabins, trailers and some outbuildings in the midst of 960 acres of open land. All of it once belonged to Ralph Clark and his brother Emmett, busted wheat farmers turned fringe ideologues. Visitors say that these days Ralph Clark sometimes wears a lawman's five-pointed star, to signify that...
...initial fire that sweeps up Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is cooled when they run into early troubles at the start of their escapades. The first bank they try to rob together has gone bankrupt. They stop at a local person's farmstead and finding that the bank has foreclosed upon it, they use the sign for target practice...
...characters, exquisitely played under Lloyd Richards' direction, are a gallery of types but come across as individuals. Among them, the restaurant owner, Memphis (Al White), is a former Mississippian who was cheated of his property and driven from his farmstead for the crime of succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious...