Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newcomer Tom Burlinson stars as Jim Craig, a mountain boy orphaned in the timberlands of Australia's Great Divide. Craig returns to the high country to conquer the wild horses responsible for his father's death, and to win the love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg...
NEVERTHELESS, the film does have some appeal--after all, it was voted the Most Popular Film at the Montreal Film Festival, and is an overwhelming box-office success in its native Australia. The setting is breathtaking, and the camera skillfully captures the ominous power of the terrain and the majesty of the wold horse pack. The opening shots, which zoom in as stallions thunder across the plain silhouetted against an electric blue sky, are particularly magnificent...
Dear Mum: Recently TIME ran a note from "Dave" to his "Dad" in the Video section instead of Letters. The point of the letter seemed to be that we did not film The Thorn Birds [March 28] in Australia and that we did not do our research. Dave certainly...
...marred by the assassination of Issam Sartawi, the P.L.O. delegate, in a hotel lobby Sunday morning. The gunman escaped. Sartawi's presence in Albufeira had been a contentious issue. If all had gone according to plan, the Socialists would have held their 16th biennial congress in Sydney, Australia. But last February, at Brandt's request, Portuguese Socialist Leader Mario Scares extended a formal invitation to the P.L.O. to send an observer. The Australian Socialists, led by newly elected Prime Minister Robert Hawke, objected strenuously, since they did not want to give the impression that they were "instant radicals...
...even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high-pressure pattern is locked over Australia, while the South American coast is awash with heavy, humid air. Says Eugene Rasmusson, chief climate analyst of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...