Word: heartland
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...film's conceit is that the original Sgt. Pepper and his three sidemen were heroic World War I bandsmen who returned to their town of Heartland and, after full lives, bequeathed their instruments to the four little boys who would grow up to become the second Sgt. Pepper band. These are Frampton, a sweet-faced youth with wilted blond hair, and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the brothers who are the Bee Gees...
George Burns, who does an agreeable turn as Mr. Kite, the mayor of Heartland, explains that the idea of a second band worried everyone: "We didn't know how they would sound." Well, they sound all right, enough like the Beatles to be respectful, enough not like them to take note of the eleven years that have gone...
...will to fight "against aggressors who go under borders rather than over borders"). At last, in a tumult of approval, he invoked the "real America-a spirit you'll find in great cities and small towns, in factories and mines. I know that spirit is strong in the heartland of America, Leslie County, Kentucky...
...Palestinian inhabitants, this 2,300-sq.-mi. land of rolling hills and valleys that lies between the Jordan and the coastal plain is the West Bank, the heartland of what they hope will eventually be an independent Palestinian state. The Palestinian yearning for a national homeland after centuries of rule by the Turks, the British and the Jordanians is every bit as intense as that of Zionist settlers before the creation of Israel. In a sense, it is a "twice Promised Land," once by Yahweh to the Jews in biblical times, again by the United Nations to the Arabs when...
...reportage and fiction, Ward Just has kept keen watch on the combat of war and politics. Here he extends his reach, trying for a Great American Novel of the heartland. The ingredients of A Family Trust are the stuff of saga. Amos, patriarch of the Rising clan, ascends with his newspaper, the Intelligencer, to the position of flame keeper for his insular Midwest town. His son tries to hold a fort that expands into shopping centers and tract houses. The grandchildren mislay the faith while inheriting the wealth that comes as an ironic dividend of cheapening values...