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Set in the lushly irrigated hills of Santa Barbara, the movie focuses on three characters, all half-hearted refugees from the mainstream. They haven't fled to anything else of course: it's a defensive maneuver, and the result is a certain disconnected status. Cutter (John Heard), is a vet...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

He particularly blasts government for its half-hearted efforts to fund agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, which try to check pollution and the spread of carcinogens. And he berates the public for persistently ignoring sound advice on how to eat and live healthfully. But he reserves his strongest...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Life in the Long Lane | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

Joe Ely's bare-knuckled and open-hearted approach to country music has consequently created a fair amount of confusion. His manager has compared him with Bruce Springsteen, presumably to get rockers to pay a little heed, and his record company just acts stymied. Ely puts up an almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Riding High with Hard-Luck Guys | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Leon Leonwood, always well-protected from the elements in his Bean gear, ran the operation himself until he died at the age of 94, in 1967. "He was strictly a 19th-century character," Bean public affairs director Kilt Andrews insists. But the stout-hearted State of Mainer, who hailed from...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Legacy of Leon Leonwood | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

Though the vote on the second question is not binding either, it does allow at least an opportunity to show that we are not quite the sheep the men in Massachusetts Hall may think. It might be a beginning for reform more substantial that the faint-hearted efforts of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote 'Yes' For $60,000 | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

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