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...this does not obscure Sayles' achievement--he has written with simple grace and sympathy a moving story of a working-class family split by social forces it cannot begin to understand. We are left with words of Darwin, Hobie's older brother, when his father contacts him about his runaway brother: "Go back. Forget about Hobie, he doesn't belong to you any more. Go back." Darwin is right: Hobie and his father are as estranged from each other as Darwin is from them both. But he is wrong about one thing. They all belong to the land. The America...
...hairdresser who earned his first moviemaker credits with Housemate Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born. Eyes is now on location in New York, and the producer says he is having more fun than on his first trip to the Big Apple. He was 13 then, a California runaway who was working in a Manhattan hotel at night-tinting the hair of hookers and that of their French poodles. Says he: "It was in the days when they had color-coordinated dogs...
...having large families as insurance in old age. India's new government, for example, has abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security. " Nonetheless, some analysts see cause for hope-if action is taken in time. Among them is World Bank President Robert S. McNamara, who examined the status of the Malthusian threat and what can be done about it in a speech...
...able to live on your inner resources." He, his German-born wife Ingrid and their two daughters do just that in a dilapidated Edwardian house in County Offaly that they bought three years ago and have been refurbishing ever since. MacDonald's success came suddenly in 1974, when runaway sales of his novel World from Rough Stones sent the family scurrying from British taxes. At first he felt guilty about paying no taxes. But the $25,000 he spends annually in wages to local workers has eased his doubts. "It was the exemption that brought us here," he concedes...
...runaway rise and fall? Some money-market analysts suspect that Burns and his colleagues may simply have misjudged the strength of the recovery, and pumped out more than the economy needed or could use. A more technical reason is an increase in money "velocity" -the speed at which money moves from checking account to checking account. Critics fault the Fed for not anticipating that this factor would make money supply grow more quickly than it wished...