Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Racer-X (Homestead Records) by Big Black: Guitarist and vocalist Steve Albini grew up in Middle America and now he's out to revenge himself on that particular bit of real estate. Big Black is the most violent, yet also the most listenable group of Homestead's recent post-punk crop. Both the songs--especially "The Ugly American"--and the liner notes show a sense of humor long gone from most rock and roll. This EP certainly beats Bing Crosby fists down: a must for anyone who burns Norman Rockwell paintings in his spare time...
...radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. "There's a load of unguided missiles in the night sky," he says. "We've been lucky thus far that none of these pilotless...
...wind and water gathered force, however, Yakub Ali knew that something ominous was on the way. Hurrying back to his homestead, he awoke his wife, his ten-year-old son and his younger brother and urged them to come along to Urirchar's only concrete building, a two-story Forestry Department complex a little more than half a mile away. By then the tide had begun to rise. Yakub and his family started running; all around them people were racing for safety...
...final, fatal moments, Home Front goes as berserk as Jeremy, waving a handgun of political didacticism at the audience, turning the American homestead into a Freudian minefield. Here Jeremy is less the middle class's guilty secret than, in his sister's words, "a terminal jerk"; and Dad must expose himself as a paranoiac patriarch whose home is his castle, moated by ignorance. For the two hours preceding this pirouette into psychodrama, Home Front is fiercely sympathetic to all of its characters. Beneath Mom's lyrical ditsiness and Dad's clumsy evasions are two frightened people who care, beyond words...
...With their daughter and the two boys who had been born in Alaska, they moved to Las Vegas, where Marino ran a gas station. "We wanted to show our kids there was something more than just Trapper Creek," says Carol. They stayed three years, then moved back to the homestead. Today Marino is a mechanic, with as much highway work as he can handle, and he and Carol run a back-door videotape-rental business. Of their original 160 acres, the Siks still own 80, which they think is worth around $5,000 an acre...