Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orson Welles knew, border towns are spiced with a touch of evil. They are nebulous nether regions where allegiances are shady and the rules change within the space of a dozen yards. Tex-Mex, the cuisine born of that uneasy schizophrenia, retains some of the intrigue of its homeland. Few innocent consumers should be bamboozled into believing, for example, that the stale tortilla coated with brown paste and overflowing with sour cream and jack cheese might with pride be called a burrito, or that the proper recipe for guacamole calls for mayonnaise. Just as Hank Quinlan--the crooked cop Welles...
...doesn't get any cheaper running for the border: International callers are hit even harder. Canadian callers pay $0.06 to $0.13 more per minute than market rates for a weekend call home...
...office bomb at the time of its release, Touch of Evil has nevertheless been heralded as one of the masterpieces of the noir genre. Charlton Heston plays Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas, a Mexican narcotics investigator embroiled in a shady murder investigation just on the other side of the border. Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between...
...rock and roll furtherprovokes the dirty feelings of disgust. Thesethreats to the blissful uniformity of Americanpost-war culture, being perhaps more immediate tothe general audience, elicit the gut response thatthen highlights the more latent tension presentedby the fear of foreign infiltration. Welles, asboth actor and director, effectively uses thenational border to comment on the relationship ofindividual security to larger systems. As much aswe, especially as an American audience, would liketo believe in our absolute ability to choose weare often structured by our identification withsome cause or other and let the system choose forus...
...outraged after reading your account of David Cash's despicable behavior following his discovery that his friend Jeremy Strohmeyer had molested and murdered a seven-year-old girl in a rest-room stall in a casino at the California-Nevada border [LAW, Sept. 7]. Granted, Cash is not legally responsible, according to current Nevada and California law, because he kept the knowledge of the occurrence to himself. But why can't he be held accountable for entering a women's rest room and peering over a toilet stall? Does this mean that any male can walk into a women...