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This tale of a train robber in turn of the century Oregon and southwest Canada contains the most spectacular landscape scenery of any movie in recent memory. The film essentially follows the trains which are the source of the Grey Fox's (Richard Farnsworth) plunder as they wend their lone ways through the small towns and steppes of the Yukon and British Columbia...
Most of this breathtaking scenery is not gratuitous, for it adds to the image of the Grey Fox as a lone renegade who is at home amidst the elements. The film's flaw is its reliance on the scenery as a substitute for a full plot. At the end of the film, we are left, consequently, feeling unsatisfied, though somehow aesthetically and spiritually elevated...
More troublingly, the administration continues to question the veracity of the testimony of thousands of Haitian refugees. Where were these vigilant watchdogs when a lone kuwaiti teenager was telling tales of atrocities committed by Iraqi soldiers...
...Small wonder that Clinton fund raiser Bob Farmer proclaims, "This will be all over by Illinois," one of the two big Rust Belt primaries (Michigan is the other) that will be held on March 17. Much of the upcoming political terrain is made to order for Clinton, the lone Southerner in the race and the contender who appears most at ease courting black voters. Between March 3 and Super Tuesday, nine states below the Mason-Dixon Line will hold primaries...
...nature. Tsongas is, after all, a contender who introduced Texas railroad commissioner Bob Krueger as "my Southern connection" and meant it: that is about all the organizational support Tsongas has in many March primary states. The campaign last week had just one staff member in Georgia and a lone 19-year-old holding down the fort in South Carolina. True, Tsongas raised $360,000 the day after New Hampshire, but he still largely depends on unsolicited checks turning up in the mail...