Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visual sloppiness or vulgarity. He has also coaxed a performance from Fonda that is superior to her rather saintly appearances in Julia and Coming Home. Her face as weatherbeaten as her dad's in The Grapes of Wrath, this beautiful woman manages to capture the essence of frontier toughness in the film's first half. When she finally melts for a man, Fonda's blushing radiance almost melts a movie that has long since congealed. - Frank Rich
...World According to Garp is mostly about the true final frontier--human sexuality, the hysteria and madness and cool fun and hot passions therein...
...county health board is trying to evict Osterberg from his home, maintaining that the coop is too small and too primitive for human habitation because it has no toilet or running water. Says County Health Director Alfred Ahern: "You can't live like Pappy did on the frontier." But Osterberg argues that the absence of running water is no health threat because he uses the bathroom of a college building five blocks away. He has no intention of flying the coop, and is appealing the eviction order in court...
Masterson's namesake of television is William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. The original Bat Masterson was a frontier lawman fabled for his panache as a dresser and highstakes gambler. Born in Iroquois County, Ill. in 1853, Masterson became deputy sheriff of notorious Dodge City, followed the gold rush prospectors to Deadwood, S.D., and then went to enforce the law at aptly named Tombstone, Ariz. at the behest of Marshall Wyatt Earp. Masterson closed out his career as a sportswriter for the New York Telegraph...
...West (Soprano Carol Neblett, Tenor Placido Domingo, Baritone Sherrill Milnes; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 LPs). Fanciulla (1910) is a second-rate Italian opera comically posing as a shoot-'em-up thriller. Neblett makes a dramatic frontier heroine. Domingo, as her lover, sings everyone else under the bar, and Milnes is dashingly villainous. With Mehta in the saddle, chorus and orchestra ride smartly home...