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Faced with the poverty of neoconservative and traditional liberal solutions, Ronald Muller tries to draw up a new blueprint of attack. More than an economic tract on revamping American industry; Revitalizing America looks at fundamental changes that American people and corporations must make in the decade ahead. As the title suggests, prosperity requires much more than the recrudescence of an affluent industrial elite, but a rebirth of a political spirit of cooperation and determination. Muller's scope extends beyond domestic boundaries to the problems of the Third World--a topic conspicuously absent in the discussions of most corporate zealots...
...rest of one's life?--the simple plan can be carried out in less time than it takes to vote for Ronald Reagan. Here was the dilemma for the Baptist pastors who filtered into Massachusetts and other progressive states, ministers with just a handful of parishioners and tract racks brimming with yellowing brochures. The heathen--Jews prostitutes, homosexuals, Democrats, feminists, intellectuals, evolutionists, rock groups, Communists--weren't too hot on the Simple Plan. But after you've been saved yourself, the only meaningful thing to do is to help others save themselves. So the pastors had a problem: they were...
...more serious fashion, Miller discusses the involuntary actions of the gastrointestinal tract, re-creates classic medical experiments, such as William Harvey's showing that blood flows in only one direction in a vein, and assists at an autopsy (we see far more of a postmortem than is ever shown on Quincy). The series can be alternately informative (Roman society frowned on scientific dissections of the human body while applauding human massacres for entertainment) and provocative (proposing that falling ill is not something that happens to us but something we choose to do). But the best moments are noncontroversial explanations...
These three-inch cylinders are implanted hi a heifer's stomach to at- tract bits of metal that the animal might swallow while eating; the magnet thereby protects the critter's heart and lungs from being punctured. When those same magnets are taped, with positive and negative poles together, on a car's fuel line, they slightly heat the gas so that the engine burns more vapor. Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets...
...leading lady (Barbara Hershey) falling in love with him, or is she playing with him on cue? Is Cross really protecting him, or is he just a conveniently anonymous, expendable bit of cannon fodder in Cross's battle to make a masterpiece? Is the film-allegedly an antiwar tract-a serious enterprise or just a moviemaker's ego trip...