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With the coming of the railroad in 1880, trading posts sprang up throughout the Navajo territory. Traders supplied German-made Saxony yarns and synthetic dyes, and the Indians developed a series of new designs in which intense colors were juxtaposed against one another. The primary motif became a radiating diamond pattern of such bright colors that the blankets were called "eye-dazzlers." Pictorial representations-figures of horses and cows, bows and arrows, houses and trains-also came into fairly general use, thus breaking the long tradition of pure abstraction...
SOREHEADS. But some already see the schlock over the horizon. One group of property owners is now suing former TV Newscaster Chet Huntley's Big Sky of Montana, Inc., two federal agencies and a railroad to block a land exchange that they claim will allow private homes to be built on public forest land...
...goodness of "Hoe- Down," in acknowledgement of Poco's antecedents, "Well, I'm goin' to a hoe-down--And kick up my heels--Go all night and never slow down--Yes, I love how it feels." Three more songs were played in rapid succession: "It's a Good Mornin'," "Railroad Days," and "Old Forgiver," gone almost before they could sink in. "It's a Good Mornin" is country funk, the hard core of the Poco music, "Railroad Days" and "Old Forgiver" belong to new guitarist Paul Cotton, who replaced tour-weary Jim Messina about a year ago. Cotton's work...
...characters. He has become so subtle in his effects that his two major blunders in Junior Bonner--a slow-motion destruction of a cottage by a tractor which is the softest piece of visual agrarian propaganda since The Grapes of Wrath, and a scene in an empty railroad station heightened by the handy entrance of a train--stick out like Irish bulls in a full corral. There is interplay between Ace (Robert Preston) and Mrs. Bonner which says more about responsibility in male-female relationships (and with the slightest means) than I would ever have thought Peckinpah capable...
...pieces of real estate have ever fitted the definition of no man's land quite so thoroughly as the 21-acre site of Berlin's old Potsdam railroad station. During the war, Allied bombers pounded the place into rubble. In 1945, the ruins became part of the Russian sector of the occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend...