Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loins as Fatal Attraction's murderously obsessive Other Woman, the one in the wild curls and sexy scoop-front blouse whom a supermarket tabloid calls the "Most Hated Woman in America"? Yes and no. In her TV film, Stones for Ibarra, about an American couple who move to rural Mexico, Close, 40, returns to playing the sort of classy and controlled heroine that won her Academy Award nominations for three of her first four films, The World According to Garp, The Big Chill and The Natural. But after her stereotype-shattering performance as Alex, she will never be the same...
...speech, Dole stressed the values that hehad derived from his rural upbringing in Russell,Kansas. Standing in front of a 20-foot wideAmerican flag, Dole began his speech with aninvocational prayer and the singing of thenational anthem. Dole punctuated his address withtales about his upbringing and his World War IIexperiences, concluding that it is the nation's"values and patriotic traditions that make Americathe country that we want to live...
...Sichuan Farmer Huang Xinzhi, 40, who built a mini-business empire from a flower-and-tree nursery business. In tribute, local officials awarded him a certificate with the message: "It is glorious and civilized to be wealthy through hard work." Still, since 1981 at least half of all rural families have built new homes. Bao Hongyuan, 38, lives with his parents, his wife and ten-year-old son in a new two-story, six-room house in the model Hong Qiao farming community in the western suburbs of Shanghai. Says he: "We not only have a new house, but electrical...
...food production must be measured against the primitive level of farming that prevailed before the reforms. They question whether such high yields can be sustained solely through intensive hand-cultivation of crops. Mechanizing the Chinese countryside would bring about needed changes in farming, but at a high price: widespread rural unemployment. To soak up excess labor and concentrate land in the hands of the most efficient peasants, China has launched a rural industrialization drive that has resulted in smokestacks, water towers and silos sprouting up in the provinces as fast as rice seedlings...
ONCE UPON A time, Bennington College was known as the most expensive school in the country, the rural refuge for rich flakes. But these days, the Vermont college also seems to be the place to go if you want to graduate a published writer. Just two years ago, while he was still a Bennington junior, Bret Easton Ellis hit the bestseller list with Less Than Zero, an up-in-coke account of Los Angeles life. The book was recently followed by The Rules of Attraction, a bright-lights-big-campus story about life at a small liberal arts school...