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...young. They have brought Passages, the New Divorced Woman, the Sensitive Father, consciousness-raising and Marin County ad nauseum. Shoot the Moon has them all, again. The film presents an attractive nuclear family falling apart into a cliched state of modern entropy. Shuttling between Osterizer and station wagon, Diane Keaton oozes domesticity as much as she radiates pure will in Reds. But Faith Dunlap is a much less interesting woman and wife than Louise Bryant, and provides a much less challenging character for Keaton's talents. Albert Finney portrays her husband George, the archetypal, egotistical-yet-vulnerable San Francisco writer...
...Wayne Williams murder Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne? No one saw either crime, and there were no fingerprints. But there is plenty of circumstantial evidence in the extraordinary Atlanta case, including carpet fibers found on the victims and bloodstains in Williams' station wagon. So prosecutors are placing their faith in test tubes, microscopes and forensic specialists; in hour upon hour of testimony, experts have said that all the scientific evidence points to Williams. Last week the defense fought back. Kansas State University Professor Randall Bresee claimed that the prosecution's fiber analysis was too imprecise. In fact...
...20th century, many automotive pioneers came to Detroit. There they found a deep-waterport and a good railroad system that gave easy access to supplies of coal and iron and a convenient way to ship their new cars back to local markets. They also found a prosperous wagon-making industry with a pool of skilled craftsmen, as well as a bustling atmosphere that encouraged innovation and manufacturing...
...rather unappetizing lot. Billy (Jack Gilpin), the elder son, is a do-nothing, want-to-do-nothing who cadges alimony money from his mother Delia (Pauline Flanagan), Bernard's first wife. Delia, who is drying out in a nearby sanatorium, pops in long enough to fall off the wagon and pour a kettle of scalding rage on Bernard...
...self-defense. But much remodeling, good or bad, also is done be cause the family cannot afford to move or hates to move. Amid the anonymity of modern city life, the idea of neighborhood, particularly ethnic neighborhood, is gaining importance. People crave a sense of belonging that no Welcome Wagon can fulfill. It exists only with living in the same place for years, if not generations, and changing that community to meet new needs...