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...noble and vital undertaking, but not an easy one. U.N. forces have, and will, suffer losses. They can rude out these storms, but only if our leaders are able to ride out the storms on the homefront...
Horrors on the homefront are the leading source of injury for women between the ages of 15 and 44. Each year 4 million women are severely assaulted by their current or former partner. Many of the victims fail to make it to the hospital in time: more than half of female murder victims are slain by their husband or boyfriend. "For too long, wife battering has been thought of as a private matter," says Sally Goldfarb of the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund. "In fact, it's a public health problem of epidemic proportions...
...sometimes in ways meddlesome or even Machiavellian. Boyd Gaines, who won a Tony Award as a saintly gay doctor in The Heidi Chronicles, balances amiability and creepiness in the role. He is ably backed by TV stars Adam Arkin (Northern Exposure), Laila Robins (Gabriel's Fire) and John Slattery (Homefront...
...duds you know are better than the duds you don't. The biggest surprise on the fall schedules is the number of shows that weren't canceled. Steven Bochco's drama Civil Wars, ABC's post-World War II soap opera Homefront, CBS's nostalgic sitcom Brooklyn Bridge, and NBC's family drama I'll Fly Away were all marginal performers in the ratings. But all will be back in the fall. They are upscale, critic-friendly shows that, the networks hope, could catch on with a little patience...
...mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...