Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest telescope ever to be flown above the surface of the earth will be launched by Harvard in conjunction with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Arizona this month...
...needed for the Infrared Telescope Balloon Project will come from Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory funds. The University of Arizona is supplying the equipment...
Then Jerry Fielding's rueful music grows percussively insistent, and breaks into a Rod Hart song about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste...
...more about Junior Bonner and through him. Bonner is the not inglorious hero of his film, both his attitude towards the world and his personal morality make him so. Bonner knows that most of Prescott is for shit, pure and simple; that most of the people never appreciated that Arizona morning, and hustle like carney hucksters to package the West which gives them their identity and heritage and sell it for a price--if it makes surviving easier. Junior can't settle for that mediocrity, can't stand it: he much prefers his old man. Ace, with dirt-sense...
...looking for it. One of the most heartening things about Junior Bonner is the growth it shows in its director. Peckinpah looks honestly at the world with a view he could only extend into grotesquerie in Straw Dogs. He knows this Arizona territory, and thus is in such a position of strength that he can love the fools without killing them. Working from that base, if he can now move toward American subjects set in more pertinent modern points farther east and west, he might become one of the first American filmmakers to inform or enrage his audiences...