Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a prelude to World War III, but the scene at the frontier etween the two nations was nonetheless a disquieting reprise of old cold war showdowns. Ardent nationalists demonstrated, inflammatory editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
...Amour's love for the frontier distinguishes him from these pulp merchants. His Indians could have stepped quietly from the pages of Carlos Castaneda, and his historical background has signs of sly humor: "Los Angeles, the tiny pueblo toward which they were sailing ..." Publishers report an increase in sales of western novels after a decline in the '60s, and they link this new interest to a nostalgia for the old America. No wonder, then, that L'Amour has become so popular. There is hardly a better trail guide. · Helen Rogan
...seriously Altman takes his film-making is indicated by some of the stories surrounding the filming of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. On location in the wilds of British Columbia, Altman had the entire cast work on constructing the set--a whole town at the edge of the late frontier--to bring the cast together. He put objects in drawers that would never be opened to heighten the actors' sense of authenticity. He has used a similar care in the choice of his actors: many of those in Thieves are non-professionals. These include the producer's wife, and star Shelley...
...Moscow to learn on what terms the Reds would negotiate with the Paris Peace Commission. Steffens' famous pronouncement, "I have seen the future and it works," came out of this trip-though, according to Bullitt, Steffens began honing the quote days before their train even reached the Russian frontier...