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...farm income this year will be $20 billion, down a painful 33% from the alltime high in 1973. The average farm family will earn only $5,300 this year, excluding off-the-farm income. As Washington Rancher Lee McGuire says, "Some farmers are absolutely flat-ass broke." Among the flattest are young farmers who bought their land and machinery in the early 1970s when prices were high and saddled themselves with heavy mortgages...
...difficult scene between a now blinded Gloucester and his son Edgar, still disguised as a mad beggar. Not recognizing his son, Gloucester begs to be led to the cliffs of Dover where he would be able to jump to his death. Instead, Edgar leads him to the flattest of beaches, all the while persuading him that they are indeed scaling heights. Believing he is on a precipice, Gloucester leaps, only to fall harmlessly to the ground. Finally, convinced he has been saved by a miracle, he resolves to try suicide no more. Brook presents the sequence in a simple natural...
...November. Many of the discussions centered on such technical problems as the lunar module's limited fuel reserves. Because Neil Armstrong was forced at the last minute to take over the controls to avoid setting down in a boulder-strewn crater, NASA has scheduled landings on only the flattest lunar terrain until the LM's fuel capacity can be increased. That will mean no sorties into deep craters or rocky highlands for at least four more Apollo flights...
...tiny, like warriors who have become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close to Losey at his strongest and most asured in his choice...