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...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...
When the chief executives from 70 of America's largest corporations gathered last weekend at the tony Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va., for a semiannual meeting of the Business Council, their mood was understandably relaxed and upbeat. The strongest economic recovery in three decades has helped produce a 23% upsurge in corporate profits this year. Between rounds of golf, tennis matches and closed-door briefings from top Government officials, the executives expressed confidence that the business climate will remain favorable, at least through...
This shoe supermarket is the creation of Harry Jubelirer, 65. He and his father, a shoe-store owner, went into business together in Homestead, Pa., after World War II. The younger Jubelirer was so laced up in the shoe business that he and his wife Natalie spent their honeymoon in Puerto Rico visiting shoe stores. In January 1954, the father and son bought Reyers, which had operated profitably in Sharon since 1885. Jubelirer bought more fashionable shoes and later quadrupled floor space, a risky move because Sharon's downtown was already on the verge of decline. "I was scared...
...place. In outline, the story is inescapably reminiscent of a sentimental silent film or of 19th century theatrical melodrama, telling as it does the simple tale of a plucky Texas widow attempting to save her farm from foreclosure and her family from being broken up should the old homestead go. Indeed, Edna Spalding, as luminously portrayed by Sally Field, is as good as she is brave: churchly, compassionate, guileless. Her sense of social responsibility is informed by unimpeachable instinct, not by suspect ideology...