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...troubled states in the industrial heartland of the Midwest, Michigan is by far the hardest hit. Beset by nationwide recession, the migration of business to the Sunbelt and the auto industry's slump, Michigan had an unemployment rate of 12.7% in October, vs. a national average of 8%. Worse is to come. The University of Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook two weeks ago projected that the state's unemployment rate would climb...
...American movie without the gloss of Hollywood or the sex appeal of the stars has ended the Australian monopoly. Heartland, an independent effort funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is an American Australian movie, with all the homespun loveliness, all the warmth, all the quietude of such films as My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant, and The Getting of Wisdom...
...HEARTLAND is a small film, then, lent a kind of grandeur by its setting and the cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...
...sorriest example is at CBS, which became the Bumpkin Network in the 1960s, then dropped a raft of popular shows in the early 1970s in deference to the urban preferences of advertisers. Of late CBS has been hearkening to the heartland again, with Dallas and Dukes of Hazzard and, next Tuesday, a two-hour Return of the Beverly Hillbillies. The film is, alas, the resurrection but not the life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist...
...humor was just about the only relief Californians had last week from their worst agricultural crisis in years. Despite stepped-up chemical warfare, the epidemic of Mediterranean fruit flies showed no signs of waning. The creatures spread beyond the populated suburbs south of San Francisco and approached the very heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year agricultural industry, the fertile 12,000-sq.-mi. San Joaquin Valley. Repercussions were quick and far-reaching. Even as helicopters doused the lush fields and orchards with pesticide, word came from Japan, California's largest overseas agricultural customer (more than...