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...same time, many city apartment dwellers have skirted the effects of rising gasoline prices-the fuel is almost two times costlier now than in 1967-because they depend on buses and subways. Farmers, small-town folks and suburbanites are not so fortunate, since they need automobiles. But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs-up 117% since 1967-by producing much of what they eat. As a result of Medicare and Medicaid, the elderly and the poor have largely escaped the exploding cost of hospitals (medical-care services have risen 122% since...
DIED. Norman Rockwell, 84, beloved illustrator and artist famed for his tableaux of small-town American life and virtues; in Stockbridge, Mass...
...small-town girl who spends summers as a free-lance professional cake decorator ("It's my own private art form") and takes time away from soccer by playing house basketball and then varsity lacrosse, appears to be obsessed with making herself a complete athlete...
Summer of My German Soldier (Oct. 30, NBC, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Television's most gifted young actress, Kristy McNichol of Family, is sadly wasted in this glossy but dim-witted adaptation of a favorite junior high school book. Summer is ostensibly about a small-town Jewish girl in Georgia who falls in love with a German P.O.W. (Bruce Davison) during World War II. For reasons that are not clear, Writer Jane-Howard Hammerstein short changes the love story to dwell on the her oine's father (Michael Constantine), a surly merchant with unexplained psychotic tendencies. McNichol and Davison...
Ever since small-town American families abandoned their farms so they could become appendages to machines in the city--experiencing at the same time the isolation and overshadowing loneliness of the city--this country has found her heroes in professional sports. Where participation in daily physical activity once precluded mere observations, most Americans today experience the joy of movement through the vicarious thrill. Many become heroes only in their hopes and dreams...