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Ironically, the movie's most poignant moments center around the older Stetsons (Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley). Both Dennehy and Ashley are superb as parents caught completely offguard by their son's defection to a world of make believe. They cling together as they try to retain their grip on their own values which Danny's indoctrination into Homeland has shaken. Should they feel responsible for failing to provide their son with an idealistic, equitable world? Should Danny blame them for his vulnerability to the hypnotic world of the cults...
...ANOTHER end lies the Institute for Conservation Archeology, a branch of the Peabody Museum that sends staff members to tag along on various construction sites in the area, observing and collecting the constructions and artifacts that emerge. (All federally funded construction projects are required to retain conservation archeologists.) The institute's staff is liable to come upon anything ranging from prehistoric rock shelters to 19th-century pottery to preserved bones...
...local parliament of the central industrial state of Hesse. Widely expected to win a clear majority in that election, the Christian Democrats polled 45.6% of the vote. The Free Democrats were wiped out of the assembly, gaining only 3.1% of the vote, far less than the 5% necessary to retain representation. Campaigning vigorously under the slogan "Betrayal in Bonn," Schmidt's Social Democrats gained 42.8%, an increase of more than 10 percentage points over their predicted total. Said S.D.P. Chairman Willy Brandt after the election: "The electorate has spoken. The Hesse elections have strong national implications...
...real trick is to retain some of that entrepreneurial spirit and provide a structure at the same time," president O'Brien points out, adding that for now, "people have to be more managerial and administrative than entrepreneurial...
...Blank's documentary, Burden of Dreams, which opened last Friday at the newly renovated Brattle theater, captures Herzog and his crew fighting both to create a movie and retain their health and sanity while entrenched in the primitive jungle. Beware of dismissing this movie merely because it falls into the category of "documentary." It is a fascinating portrait of a director straddling the border between sanity and the depths beyond, while challenging himself and nature through the jungle...