Word: frontierisms
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Still, one is almost grateful for this opportunity to muse once again over the asininity of the rating system, since the rest of this predictable slice of frontier life (the setting is California's Big Sur country) offers almost nothing to think about. Hannah's response to her groom's welcome is to teach him table manners. He makes some progress toward civility, but he keeps getting distracted. Late in the film he is still capable of driving a herd of cattle through her vegetable garden purely as an exercise in cussedness...
...reclamation of 800,000 acres of land below the dam, Sadat envisions an even more audacious project-the reclamation of nearly 2 million acres of the sand-swirling Western Desert, between the green belt and Egypt's western borders. He becomes excited when he talks about this new frontier. "That's it, the west, I am all for a drive to the west. You know how much I like your western movies. We need the same in Egypt...
...spiritual forefathers, hardy pioneers, might have shuddered had they foreseen where their dreams would head their children. For Gatsby's story is of those energies that settled Western America. He is son to that frontier past, the demise of which was sealed with the frontier. And Gatsby's tragedy comes of his attempt to graft the promise of a faded pastoral America onto an alien present...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
...Amour's love for the frontier distinguishes him from these pulp merchants. His Indians could have stepped quietly from the pages of Carlos Castaneda, and his historical background has signs of sly humor: "Los Angeles, the tiny pueblo toward which they were sailing ..." Publishers report an increase in sales of western novels after a decline in the '60s, and they link this new interest to a nostalgia for the old America. No wonder, then, that L'Amour has become so popular. There is hardly a better trail guide. · Helen Rogan