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...Rydell, who directed The Reivers and On Golden Pond, knows how to keep this stuff moving, if not how to make it moving. Here is a story ripped from today's headlines--BAD TIMES FOR THE SMALL FARMER--filmed in a style of roseate elegy. Everything is romanticized, from Mom biting into the season's first ear of corn to Junior eating Oreos on the cab of the family flatbed truck as God's sun sets behind him. Gibson's baby-faced doggedness and Spacek's ingratiating freckles suit them more for roles as college quarterback and star cheerleader than...
...Humana. Doctors sense that they are losing control of medical care and that hospital administrators and companies are taking over. At one time, the doctors were kings. That may not be true any more; they are becoming more like employees." Agrees VenderHaar: "It's the same fear the mom-and-pop grocery stores had when Krogers came to town. And I guess they were right...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
...outlaw abortion, favored the ERA, and tagged the Reagan tax and spending plans "voodoo economics." But in his debate last month with Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.), Vice President Bush, now repentant, supported a pro-life amendment, citing "an evolution in my position." Moreover, a flag-waving, Mom-loving Bush cheered, "This President's turned [the country] around, and I've been at his side every step...
...Estelle loves Greta Garbo. Estelle's a fighter; she wouldn't let her son go an a grammar school trip to a steel mill because the workers were on strike. "Everyone came home with a little box of nails," Gilly (Ron Silver) recalls as he scolds his middle-aged mom for her political activities. He's just bailed her out of jail for another one of her anti-establishment antics. But not a moment too soon, because when Estelle hears construction workers yell obscenities at a woman in the street, she rides up to the building to off the hankering...