Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While supporters of gun legislation reminded the Senate that George Wallace had been felled by an easily purchased Saturday Night Special, they got no cooperation from the stricken Governor, who still opposes any kind of controls. Such is the lingering influence of the frontier that not even a harrowing brush with death will cause one of its sons to lay down his arms or urge others to do so. Never mind that the maniac shoots faster and straighter. The gun is still potent as symbol-and all too often as fact...
...song about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste of our Sunshine," the girl answers, as she flips a can of beer over...
...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...
...decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat Dancing comes from an old WPA guide to Wyoming. Its frontier details are lifted from children's books and such relics as Bannerman's mail-order catalogue of Civil War surplus. The structure emerged from the more realistic how-to guides for fledgling writers and from the fiction stacks, where the author compared dozens of first pages and studied...
Ride the High Country. Sam Peckinpah's superb second feature, one of the best American films of the '60's. Though elegiac in tone, the film recognizes the death of the frontier and of heroic values along with it. And some very modern psychological truths are introduced in incredible scenes at a mining camp, Sunday, noon, CHANNEL...