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Faulkner's story was not one of his best, but it was far from as mawkish as what Foote (who was also responsible for the screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird) has homespun out of it. The farmer undergoes every conceivable trial and hardship. When the woman dies soon after giving birth, the farmer devotedly raises the child (Johnny Mask) as his own, only to see the law return him eventually to his natural father. But like Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury, the farmer endures. Foote's script and Anthony's leaden direction transform this...
...THAT homespun homily by the turn-of-the-century soap manufacturer turned essayist hangs framed in countless offices and factories. It has long been accepted by both employers and employees as an accurate description of their relationship: loyalty in return for wages-love the company or leave it. But what if an employee has inside information about products that have hidden defects, factories that pollute, false advertising claims, price fixing, cost overruns or kickbacks? A growing number of workers are answering such questions by blowing the whistle on corporate misdeeds...
...Hospital shares little but garrulousness with the kind of Bronx homespun that made Screenwriter Chayefsky's reputation (Marty, The Bachelor Party). It has more in common with the dyspeptic humor of Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily, a clubfooted send-up of war heroes. It even has the same director, Arthur Hiller, who last holiday season took the medical profession rather more seriously in Love Story...
...public for his books (The State of Music) and his distinguished music reviews in the New York Herald Tribune (1940-54) as for works like the opera Four Saints in Three Acts or the film score for Louisiana Story, Whether in words or notes, Thomson expresses himself with the homespun texture of his Missouri background, the elegance of his Parisian training and an elfin...
...strange mixture of Americana. Speaking in a slow, relaxed voice which retains a Dakota twang, George McGovern reflects a traditional homespun, hearthside American culture. At the same time, he is a hard realist about big business and military involvement abroad...