Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers, who have watched grain prices fall sharply because of the recession and an overabundance of commodities, are generally delighted by the influx of Japanese. Nebraska Wheat Grower Jake Sims figures that they have helped add three cents to four cents a bushel to the value of his crop, which currently is worth about $3.70 a bushel. Says he: "I don't care if it's Japanese, or Swedes, or whoever coming in. More competition means a better price, and we can use all the help we can get these days...
HOSPITALIZED. Theresa Saldana, 27, versatile actress who played Jake LaMotta's sister-in-law in Raging Bull; with knife wounds; in Los Angeles. Saldana was stabbed twice in the chest outside her West Hollywood apartment. Police arrested Arthur Jackson, 46, an unemployed Scotsman, and charged him with attempted murder...
...seems. Jake bitterly feels that he has been maimed rather than reared, and in his sister's kitchen we meet his parents. His father Jack (Harold Gould) is a raspy nonentity with a taste for booze and two unvarying questions on his lips: "So what's new?" and "When am I gonna see my granddaughter...
...Jake's mother Helen (Frances Sternhagen) is a tyrant of the hearth. She has X-ray eyes, but she can discern no conceivable virtue in anyone who disputes her dictums about food, home furnishings and the proper cowing of a child. She has a deep-freeze heart, and Jake had been stored there until he could be thawed out by externally approved success at the newspaper. For Jake's mother and father, the Times is the Talmud...
...Jake is writing a book about "the moral and ethical disintegration of the American dream," and Grownups seems shackled to that thesis. For few explicable reasons, Jake and Louise crush each other in a rockslide of a marital spat that rivals the venom but not the wit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ln an explosive but faintly ludicrous finale, all the family pieties are blasted and blasphemed...