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Standing beside the gentle poetry of Places in the Heart, Country looks as stubborn and haunted as a dirt farmer caught in Dorothea Lange's lens. This is an unashamedly political film, spoiling to pin responsibility for the small, independent farmer's troubled times on the shrugging shoulders of the Reagan Administration. However majestic Jewell Ivy (Jessica Lange), her husband Gil (Sam Shepard) and their teen-age son Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader...
...Mondale strategy is to force Reagan off his high road and into a debate on specific issues. Says Senior Adviser Richard Leone: "We want this race to be a toe-to-toe contest. We want to pin Reagan down. If we can't debate him, we want to stay as close to him as possible." Yet the era of good feeling that Reagan is riding partly reflects a public appreciation of his leadership in certain substantive areas of policy. Indeed, the contest will involve an unusually stark ideological clash over the course that Reagan has set and its chances...
Sort of. The Dallasites were open, cordial, if not quite as celebrative as one thought they would be. I had the feeling that Dallas was straining to enjoy itself, but that's to be expected if you pin such extravagant high hopes on enjoying yourself. To tell the truth, it was hard to see Dallas for the convention, and while the city seemed the apotheosis of Republicanism as long as Republicans were stomping about, it might look much different in quieter times. An obscure and special soul lies behind the reflecting towers and the crape myrtles and the still...
Fingernail maintenance seems to fill the hours women once devoted to straightening stocking seams and rolling pin curls. The ladies' room crowd admires a tourist, the owner of a nail shop in California, who reveals a gold nail set with diamonds on her left ring finger...
Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia manages to carry off a remarkable yardage of black leather and five-inch heels without coming across as a cardboard pin-up. Supposedly ambitious and bright, she is also quite vulnerable, particularly in her relationship with the Kid, a seductive imp who insists on a Kid-centered universe and turns nasty when his supremacy is threatened. The love between the two frequently reenacts the relationship between the Kid's parents, a failed-musician Black father whose frustration leads him to beat his white wife viciously. When Apollonia announces that she plans to accept a place...