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This tale of a train robber in turn of the century Oregon and southwest Canada contains the most spectacular landscape scenery of any movie in recent memory. The film essentially follows the trains which are the source of the Grey Fox's (Richard Farnsworth) plunder as they wend their lone ways through the small towns and steppes of the Yukon and British Columbia...
...together, is there a label for that?" That's a laudable notion, but don't hold your breath till they find their answer. "They are finally out there, saying 'Pay attention to us,' but I've never heard them think of a single thing that defines them," says Martha Farnsworth Riche, national editor of American Demographics magazine...
...people get that once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the sex life of the Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction...
...even the serious exhibitions provide the tang of astonishment. A display of 58 machines -- from the 1835 thaumatrope to tomorrow's Sony GV-8 Video Walkman -- pulses with the gimcrack genius of those anonymous technicians who gave artists the tools to dream with. The spirit of Philo T. Farnsworth, boy pioneer of TV, rides again...
...Although Farnsworth said she has no concrete plans after she leaves the IOP next week, she is considering working on a political campaign...