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Good Deal. The farmer does not consider himself the culprit but a scapegoat-and he resents it. If he gets one or two banner years, he reasons, he is expected to do penance for them. Says Harold Steele, an Illinois hog farmer and President of the Illinois Agricultural Association: "People forget that prices were so low two years ago that the farmer was taking a huge loss. Often he had to mortgage 75% of his equity to stay in business." But the farmer does not forget. Living with precarious weather and price cycles, he develops a certain resignation. He complains...
...western singer called Maury Dann, a sort of Orpheus pretending who boozes, wenches pops pills and passes along the old payola. As played and sung by Rip Torn -eyes bulging, teeth bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched photography uses a style known as "television light," meaning that the frame...
...livestock auctions. He would come home at ten in the evening, tired and dung-booted, to tell his guests about the price of beef and about egg production problems. "He's become a goddam farmer," an old friend complained. "I want to talk Democratic politics. He talks only hog prices...
...late for the the Ground Hog, but when the Crimson fencing team emerged from its 48-day hibernation last Saturday, the best it could come up with against NYU was a sleepy performance and a 20-7 loss...
...picked up by WEEK, a CBS affiliate, and a syndicated version is now heard on more than 50 stations across the U.S. Deluged with up to 20,000 calls a night, the three superfans attack what they call the "hidden injuries of class" by blasting everyone from politicians who hog tickets to the "phony, bigoted yachtsmen of the New York Yacht Club." Though they have broadened their attack to suit their national audience, they still hit home the hardest. Among their favorite targets are Boston Red Sox Manager Eddie Kasko ("A mealymouthed marshmal-low") and Bruin Star Bobby...