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CHARTING THE CAREER of world champion race car driver Shirley Muldowney from Schenectady housewife to champ, Heart Like a Wheel evokes expectations of an automotive Breaking Away. No such luck, Director Jonathan Kaplan gets us in the car, but the ride is always too short. We feel a bit like the little kid who puts his only shiny quarter in the plastic horsey, expecting an exhilarating ride but only receiving a few quick, neck-snapping bobs...
Despite some occasionally effective scenes and characterizations, Heart Like a Wheel rarely lets us see beneath Shirley's facade of sheer determination to win. As Shirley spins toward success, her emotional world seems as inert as the metal of the wheel itself...
...striving to diversify beyond what it was for so long: a supplier of so-called niche cars for a limited market. Best known: the Jeep, which AMC bought from Kaiser Industries in 1969. Sales of the profitable four-wheel-drive vehicle are phenomenal. They more than doubled, to 16,500 through mid-February, from the same period a year...
...consulting firm. "Within the companies that have signed the principles, something less than one-third are making what we would call 'good progress,'" he says. "About one-third are making some progress and getting by. The ones in the bottom groups really aren't putting their shoulder to the wheel." About 100 signatory companies are included in the report; 11 did not report their figures, Weedon says. About 160 American companies in the country have not signed the principles at all. Among the companies in the bottom group are the three Harvard will be contacting in the next year...
Marge breaks ranks by marrying James Vogel, newcomer and lawyer for Safebuy, but the traditions of paper pushing and sodbusting soon conflict. The marriage dissolves. Marge must work the gambling wheel at the Elks' club to raise her son Kurt and to keep the fallow farm where her widowed mother bitterly awaits death. Part II is Kurt's account of Mother Marge's struggles, her drinking and her unhousebroken boyfriends, including a Sioux sheep rancher. The novel concludes with a hint of contrivance as the title, Leaving the Land, takes on a resonant double meaning: the inevitability...