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...farm troubles often turn bankers into unwilling villains, a role they play in a recent crop of mortgage-melodrama movies, including Country and Places in the Heart. One case of real-life tragedy occurred in September 1983 in southwestern Minnesota, where a farmer and his 18-year-old son decided to get even with a small-town bank that had foreclosed on their land. The father and son lured two bankers to the farm and then shot them to death. One farmer in Nebraska was killed last month in a shootout with police who were serving him papers...
Places in the polling hierarchy traditionally occupied by the overpowering-Alabama, Notre Dame, Pitt or U.S.C.-have been taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described...
Most of Tom's filial anxiety is expressed in petulant silences, terse complaints or brooding bedroom confidences to his wife. The dominant mood of the story is foreboding, not confrontation. Arlen enlarges the narrative with flashbacks, precise observations of the Southwestern landscape, persuasively detailed descriptions of scenes from Sam's imaginary film classics. He keeps the conflict from becoming one-sided by displaying Sam's abrupt charms and convincing manifestations of primitive genius: a ruthless urge to simplify, instantaneous judgment about character, a capacity for total absorption coupled with the short attention span of a child...
...ANZUS treaty, many of the country's 3.1 million people fear that harboring such vessels will invite attack in the event of a war between the superpowers. The U.S., however, believes this continued access to the ports is necessary because of the growing Soviet presence in the southwestern Pacific. The use of air and maritime facilities in Viet Nam, most notably the former U.S. naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, has led to substantially greater Soviet activity in the region in recent years. Explained Shultz to his hosts: "It is not just a question of insisting on access...
...They're organized," admits Hart's Southwestern coordinator, John Pouland. "And they'll have the opportunity to be disproportionately represented in the caucuses." Complains Hart: "The caucuses are stacked against us." In 1981 and 1982, before Hart even announced, Mondale had visited Texas 14 times, methodically lining up the endorsements of almost every important party leader...