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...with or at his characters. His work has shifted from expressionist flights of fancy to a kind of grim, weird naturalism and has tended more and more to portray families as the poisoned wellspring of human evil. He has brought to life the same fumbling, feckless dreamers from the heartland that Tennessee Williams did and, like Williams, has shown a special sensitivity to the yearnings of women. But having seen the world with cold comprehension, he has lacked the perception or perhaps the will to envision a possibility of kindness, of decency, of morally redemptive hope...
...Prime Minister selected the University of Chicago to deliver his remarks, he said, in order to "reach deep into the heartland" of America. In his 30-minute speech, Mulroney reported that Canada's economic renewal is well under way. "All the indicators--the gross national product forecasts, interest rates, inflation, housing starts, employment, capital investment--are improving, in some cases a wee bit better than the U.S," he said. "Most important, confidence is being rebuilt." To put its house in order, Mulroney reiterated, his government is firmly committed to reducing its $25.8 billion budget deficit. He recommended that...
Such blasphemy would never be allowed in a Moslem country as they honor the Blssed Virgin Mary (it was thrown out of Italy); while in the heartland of the USA the people would never allow such insults to the Mother of Jesus Christ and mockery of the Holy Bible. It was our Poet, Longfellow, who wrote of Mary as "Mankind's solitary boast." Why would the people of Massachusetts allow this filth anytime, but especially now in the Christmas season? The author takes the Magnificat, the great prayer of Mary wherein She praises God: "My sould doth magnify the Lord...
Fall is the peak export season along the shores of the St. Lawrence Seaway, where grain and industrial goods leave the American and Canadian heartland on the way to destinations around the world. Last week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded...
...keeping with his all-American image, Hudson, 59, was born in the heartland, in Winnetka, Ill. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father, Roy Scherer, was an automobile mechanic who left the family when his son was a child. When his mother remarried, little Roy assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once...