Word: alamo
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...nearly 200 doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo in San Antonio helped inspire Texans to defeat General Santa Anna's Mexican army in 1836. Today more than half of San Antonio's 1.1 million residents are Hispanic, and some are up , in arms about the way a new film depicts the famous battle. Alamo -- The Price of Freedom is to run in a giant-screened theater near the fort. Hispanic leaders claim the film demeans the role of nine Tejano (Texas-born Mexican) defenders in the siege. Also "inaccurate and uncalled for," they say, is a scene...
...amateur historian who put up most of the film's $3 million cost. "I made an honest attempt to reflect the battle as accurately as I could." Despite threats of protests, he plans to proceed with the film's public debut on March 6, the 152nd anniversary of the Alamo's fall...
...called the Milagro Beanfield War, a modern-day fable about a native New Mexican farmer who dares to stand up to Big Business developers. But for a while it looked as though the motion picture might be better remembered as Robert Redford's Alamo. Even before filming began, Redford was daunted by the task of rendering John Nichols' 1974 novel into a suitable screenplay. "There were several attempts made," he recalls. "It was very, very difficult." Then, shortly after arriving on location in New Mexico last summer, Redford was buffeted by bad weather and stormy relations with the locals...
Texas Instruments seemed as determined last week as the troops that defended the Alamo. The beleaguered electronics giant took out a two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that was intended to have the impact of a barrage of cannonballs. "Suddenly an era of explosive invention begins," proclaimed the company, as it touted an array of new technologies. This time the heroic struggle is over the manufacture of semiconductors, the tiny silicon chips that form the brains of virtually every advanced product from microwave ovens to mainframe computers. The attacker is Japan, whose aggressive electronics industry...
...other hand, there is the unfairness to the celebrity. I mean, why should Fess Parker have to shake hands at the factory gate -- after what he did at the Alamo? Nor is it right that Kennedys should have to compete for office and risk the indignity of, one day, losing. The British would never permit, say, Prince Andrew or his intended, "Fergie," to be so tarnished. There must be a better...