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...those bewildering flurries of consensus that occasionally lead Hollywood toward artificial revivals of old genres (Remember the passel of westerns in 1980?), three major studios have produced a trio of films on the same unfashionable subject: Don't sell the farm, Mother! Disney's Country, like Tri-Star's Places in the Heart and Universal's forthcoming The River, tells the story of a strong-willed woman who fights the banks, the elements and the changing times to keep her God-given patch of land safe for her and her adorable kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COUNTRY: From Heartland to Heartthrobs | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Illness turned the Harvard men's cross country tri-meet with Northwestern and Rice Saturday into what the Crimson's Kent called, "more of a training session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten's Cross Country | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Lockheed. The big defense contractor flew into trouble as the 1970s began because of development outlays for its Tri-Star jumbojet, which never made money and is now out of production, and vast cost overruns on the giant C-5A military cargo carrier. In 1971 the Senate, by a one-vote majority, approved $250 million in now expired loan guarantees. Last year Chairman Roy Anderson was able to report that booming military business had helped Lockheed achieve record profits of $263 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Uncle Lends a Hand | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...voice: Stewart has a much deeper one. D.L., who was known as Denny before legally changing his name to initials, is a liberated husband of 20 years and the father of four. In a Dayton Journal Herald column, he writes about the ordinary upsets at his tri-level home in the bedroom community of Beaverbrook, Ohio. Stewart has not always been one of the dinette set, however. In the beginning, he wanted to be another Jimmy Breslin, but after hanging out in locker rooms, the curly-haired journalist realized ten years ago, "You don't have to write about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And on Other Home Fronts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

With its four years of club-level experience behind it, though, the squad set out to prove it deserved its newly earned varsity status. "Showing we could be established as a varsity team was an important as how well we played," says one of the squad's graduating tri-captains, Martha Wood...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A splashing debut | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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