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With cash scarce and gasoline expensive, more people are staying home and stretching the family budget by doing their own work. Fixing up the old family homestead that has a 6% mortgage is far cheaper than buying a new house. Says Bernie Marcus, chairman of Home Depot Inc., a chain of Atlanta home-improvement centers: "Given the cost of borrowing, less spending money and the fact that they really can't find competent help, some people don't have a choice...
Having lived mainly a life of the mind, Charles Darwin is a difficult subject for popular biography. After five years aboard H.M.S. Beagle, he married Josiah Wedgwood's daughter, moved to the country and spent his days in study, writing, fathering children and improving his homestead. He never had money worries, did not drink, gamble or chase women. All he did was change mankind's image of itself. It was hardly a rush to judgment. For 17 years he had labored on his book in the study of a country house at Down, despite fits of nausea, depression...
...Yale '59, is an esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming daughters, a homestead in Lexington, Mass., and a summer place on Cape...
...setting is a fictional town in Tennessee around 1935. Palmerstown looks a little like Haley's native Henning and a lot like the homestead of The Waltons. The premise is reminiscent of Mark Twain: two young boys, one black (Jermain Hodge Johnson) and one white (Brian Godfrey Wilson), are best friends despite the racial barriers that separate their respective families. The two-hour opening show introduces the boys and their parents with the dubious aid of a very frail plot mechanism. The white father, a grocer (Beeson Carroll), mistakenly overcharges his black counter part, a blacksmith (Bill Duke...
...length, this film biography of Country Singer Loretta Lynn outdoes even The Buddy Holly Story and The Rose in the show-biz-saga sweepstakes. Care and intelligence are everywhere in evidence. British Director Michael Apted (Agatha) captures both the poverty and pride of the young Loretta's Appalachian homestead without resorting to Hollywood sentimentality or glamorization. Tom Rickman's script uses intimate, telling details as it enthusiastically describes the heroine's gradual transformation from 13-year-old hillbilly bride to Nashville superstar. The cast, especially Sissy Spacek as Lynn -the best role of her career -is always...