Word: heartland
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...front by being granted six days leave to travel home and see his mother. The war is going very badly--apparently this takes place in the Fall of 1941--and the film is the story of Alyosha's odyssey, journeying from the collapsing front lines back into the heartland of Russia. He is sidetracked during the trip by several isolated episodes. He comes to the aid of a soldier who, having lost a leg in combat, is afraid to return home to his wife; he goes out of his way to bring greetings to the wife of a fellow soldier...
...spectacle at Snake River Canyon was not "a blue-collar Woodstock." It was more of a redneck Altamont. It's great to know that the good ole heartland is just as frivolous and decadent as the East and West Coasts...
From Villa Park, Calif., heartland of Nixon country, the wholesome, 6 ft. 6 in. senior, who says he has become "very adept at being middle-of-the-road politically," has a stronger feeling about his athletic career...
...balance, but it would kick the nation's food prices even higher. In addition, millions of people in Asia and Africa are living on the edge of starvation and looking to the U.S. food-aid programs for survival. A continuing siege of crop-killing weather in the American heartland this year could very well mean a rising death rate from Calcutta to Africa's famine-ridden Sahel...
...chance he gets, Kremen is asking people the Big Questions--and because the people he talks to are real, grassroots Americans, he presents everything they say as deeply momentous. Unfortunately, it doesn't always come out that way. Here is Kremen at Ohio State, the campus of America's heartland, talking to a student...