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HOMER is a well-intentioned film about a young man's growing intolerance for his parents, his home town and his life in Middle America. Too often the script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named...
...Walk the Line is Director John Frankenheimer's second film in a row (the other was The Gypsy Moths) about the quiet terrors of small-town family life and a middle-aged man's irrevocable course toward self-destruction. The theme is both difficult and promising, but in each film it is subordinated, not to say submerged, in melodrama...
...years, sometimes awed by the satraps of the Street, Haack had come across as more the manager and conciliator than the innovative leader. Unlike his predecessor, G. Keith Funston, who served the exchange as a supersalesman, Haack seemed like central casting's response to a call for a small-town doctor...
...increased 4% from 1966 to 1969. According to the American Medical Association, one-fourth of all U.S. physicians will be sued for malpractice before the end of their careers. Those most likely to be affected are neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and general surgeons. Those least likely: small-town ophthalmologists...
...request for equal time comes from Emma Wallop, a small-town Midwestern widow and retired nurse who wakes one day to discover that her former boarder, Randy Rivers, has published a bestselling novel entitled Don't Look Now, Medusa. A tin-plated Spoon River Anthology, it has as its main character a small-town Midwestern landlady, like Emma herself, given to dislocated clichés and malapropisms...