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Massachusetts voters went to the polls in record numbers, bucking the band-wagon that gave Reagan landslide margins of victory across the country...
Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is one such excitement-starved Middle American, a suburban housewife hooked on the trashy romantic adventures of a Modesty Blaise clone called Rebecca Ryan. Her execrable taste in literature can be excused as a casualty of her suburban lifestyle; a station wagon, two sons exuding Gary Colemanesque sass, and a husband who's idea of a romantic evening is his and hers spreadsheets...
...course, the picture is pure hokum, and everybody knows it. The West was won by wagon trains, the East by sailing ships, and they all had plenty of passengers aboard, by necessity working together. "In history," Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin explained, "even the great explorer had been the man who drew others to a common purpose." Try to imagine an individual so rugged he could raise a roof beam...
This unprecedented challenge to corporation sole raises the spectre of "Big Brother" IRS agents examining the odometer on the church station wagon to see if it registers more trave than necessary to make the parish rounds (Though even Moon partisans admit that the church converts to a group accomidation as the Unification Church did in 1975--it will avoid the potential threat...
...sheen of sophistication the rest of Texas begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...