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The flatness of the people's lives in Wildrose matches the flatness of the film's characters. The small town is populated with a familiar cast of bar sleazes, unemployed drunks, old women watching from their front porches, and male chauvinist breadwinners who insist that a woman's place is...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Woman Vs. Nature | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Another thing: Harvard makes a special effort to accommodate its taller students by furnishing all rooms with extra long beds. Why, then, does Harvard Student Agencies still provide bottom sheets that are too short for College matresses and aren't fisted to boot?

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Of Waffles and T-Bones | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

Solving them will be even more difficult because both the government obstacles, as well as with the more immediate concern of recurring unemployment during business and the country as a whole will have relatively fewer resources. The government will have very few policy options because it will not be able...

Author: By David S. Grahmin, | Title: Mortgaging The Future | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

Why are people saying that a fleshy, overbearing auto executive should be President of the U.S.? What accounts for the rampant Iacoccamania? There are many reasons, if no pat explanation. He is powerful, a VIP, yet his bullish candor reminds people of a pal at the local tavern who calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Mamou is a dog-eared old town, with a not-quite-finished look about it, as though its builders knocked off a week or two early. It is a low town, with one main street full of bars, set in farming country where people raise soybeans one year, rice the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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