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...River (1985). This winsome adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn celebrated the frontier in music and lyrics by Roger Miller, a wistful lamenter of the lost open road. Designed and staged with shrewd simplicity, it glowed with sentiment: when Huck and the runaway slave Jim got onto the river, they lit cigars -- and ignited a skyful of stars...
...Goddammit, I'm going to blast out these sentences and send them to the publisher' -- this kind of John Wayneism of literature. You just can't." He finds the notion of a so-called Rocky Mountain school of literature equally specious. Still, he admits that "there is a residual frontier feeling of open possibilities that seems to be a part of the voice of living here...
...cross their borders for at least a glimpse of the outside world, has yet to wear off. Those among the nearly 5 million people who, in little more than a week, made the journey cannot quite believe they did, and the faces of the thousands who pour through frontier crossings every day are bright with expectation. In Berlin, East Germans huddle over subway maps as they head into Western terra incognita, a place most of them know only from television; at other checkpoints their cars pile up for miles...
...around 10% of the population, might flee to the West if the borders were opened -- as they were last week all along East Germany's periphery. (Within 48 hours of the opening of the Wall, nearly 2 million East Germans had crossed over to visit the West; at one frontier post, a 30-mile- long line of cars was backed up.) West Germans fear they simply could not handle so enormous a population shift...
Located in Greenwich Village, which has a large gay community, Harvey Milk has some things in common with a frontier school. It has two full-time teachers, Beth Bomze and Fred Goldhaber, and two classrooms for 40 students, only a handful of whom show up at the three-story waterfront building on a given...