Word: rural
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Deflating as these anticlimaxes are, they still do not alter the achievement of what has gone before. The early scenes, which unfold in the green hills and gaslit haunts of a dusky rural mining town, are full of flavor and native humor. When the pallid, naive Loretta marries an Army veteran of 19 (Tommy Lee Jones) and moves with him to Washington State to raise a family, the couple's first ignorant encounters with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing...
Egypt, specifically, is upset about the Israeli Cabinet's decision to grant Jews the right to settle in the heart of the West Bank Arab town of Hebron. Thus far, most of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have been located in rural areas or on the outskirts of Arab population centers; the Hebron decision understandably inflamed the Palestinian Arabs. Referring to Israel's settlements policy, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that he was "sad but optimistic" and expressed the hope that the Israeli government would "drop all these difficulties they are putting...
Worst hit were the chic canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains to the north and east of downtown Los Angeles. The hills are home to some of the area's wealthiest and most famous people, who live in semi-rural splendor in houses on the canyon bottoms, surrounded by oak trees and chaparral, or in hillside houses perched on stilts. Since fires-another scourge of the well-to-do Angelenos-have destroyed much of the vegetation in past years, the earth was quickly saturated by the rains. It turned into avalanches of mud that swept down the hillsides...
...Hampshire is sometimes disparaged as being too white, rural and conservative to reflect national opinion, but the state is fast changing. An influx of residents from Massachusetts into the southern part of the state is giving it, for better or worse, the look of much of the rest of the nation: the same kind of suburban sprawl. Its population has been growing faster than that of any other Eastern state except Florida-from 780,000 to 938,000 in the last decade. To reach these greater numbers, candidates are relying more than ever on TV. One pitch follows another...
Wise Blood is about Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran who comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher...