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Baseball and football have long had their halls of fame, and now capitalism is about to get a showcase that will surpass them both. Called Enterprise Square, USA, the 60,000-sq.-ft. megastructure on the campus of Oklahoma Christian College (enrollment: 1,700) will be a paean to the free-market system when it opens this week. Attractions range from a 12-ft-wide cash register and 2-ft.-tall puppets to a video-game room where visitors can try their hand at running dozens of different types of firms. There will even be a Hall of Giants...
...Oklahoma Christian President J. Terry Johnson dreamed up Enterprise Square about six years ago in response to findings that many high school youths were bored by economics and knew little about it. The solution, he felt, would be a lively exhibition of the virtues of free enterprise. Says Johnson: "This will be America's most entertaining educational attraction. You will have to see it to believe...
Based on S E Hinton's novel for children and teens, the movie chronicles Tex McCormick's (Matt Dillion) coming of age. But unlike the plot in Dillion's Little Darlings coming of age in Bixby. Oklahoma doesn't involve a virgin's race to promiscuity. Instead, it deals with the education of a fifteen-year-old's sentiments as Tex reconciles his idealized happiness with his seemingly stagnant and often trying life...
...this theme subtlely Tex the "stayer" has a "goer" closer to home in Mason, who hopes to win a basketball scholarship to Indiana State University Mason explains his reasons to Tax simply. "Number one, it's the best team in its league, and number two, it's not in Oklahoma." Because Tex's surprise at his brother's dissatisfaction borders on confusion, if underscores Tex's innocence he only wants others to feel as content as he does "Don't worry," he tells Mason as their funds begin to run down. "Pop's coming back" But their father eventual return...
...films the interior of the boys' small, off-white house in an unaggressive manner, directing his camera assymetrically. He thus includes several open and half-open doors in his line of view. Hunter's shots evoke a sense of tranquility and, paradoxically, restlessness. The open doors offer views of Oklahoma's fields, land scapes that in turn offer hope to Bixby residents, some who wish only to ride through them and others who wish to ride beyond them...