Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grain ripening in the sun and rustling in the wind. Moving through it, stately figures dressed in black, the men bearded, the women wearing long dresses. The image is out of 19th century rural life. Certainly it is not what one expects to see at the beginning of a movie that takes up, among other 20th century matters, a drug-related murder and police corruption...
...programs, prominently including pensions for retired civilian and military employees (other than those on Social Security) and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Nearly a score of other programs would be "reformed"--that is, cut deeply. Among them: farm price supports, veterans' health benefits, student loans, child nutrition, rural electrification, public housing...
...each, the stress is on shared religious instruction, prayer and communal self-help. Local priests provide guidance to community leaders, but the principal focus of the groups is on relating the lessons of the Bible to the day-to-day activities of their members, be they urban slumdwellers or rural campesinos...
Signs of hardship abound throughout rural America. In Unionville, Mo., Bud and Hazel Hirst have decided to give away their 476-acre cattle ranch, which is $200,000 in debt. "You can't sell land here," says Bud, 53. "Nobody is going to buy it." The Hirsts have hit on a unique way to lay their burden down. They have collected poems by Hazel, 52, in a booklet titled Bitter Harvest, and are selling copies for $8 each (sample verse: "But hope won't clothe your children/ It can't their hunger salve/ It will not pay the mortgage...
...thespian training accounts for the excessive Oriental inscrutability his brings to his part. But then living in the paranoid hell of Cambodia made silence and inconspicuousness golden virtues. In fact, Ngor's most effective scenes occur when he doesn't speak at all. After Pran is exiled to a rural concentration camp, he must struggle to appear nothing more than a simple peasant. His Khmer Rouge, captors, constantly suspicious, address him in French and English, unsuccessfully attempting to expose him as one of the hated Westernized Cambodians...