Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enterprise seemed to stop there. As a boy on the frontier of Ohio, he had been instructed by his father in how to bargain for a colt-then told the owner the highest price he could offer. He remained ingenuous; amid the bonanzas of the West, he panned only fool's gold. In San Francisco, a friend from the East talked him out of $1,500 for a partnership, gulled him into destroying the notes and soon absconded. On Army duty in the Pacific Northwest, he sought to make some side money raising potatoes for hungry settlers; the Columbia...
...century, rich cattle barons hire an army of well-trained assassins to rid the Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...
...book is at its best when Stratton quotes long segments of the memoirs without interruption. The ungarnished language of these pioneers presents a quiet celebration of lives simply lived, without grand ambition, self-glorification or moralizing, Mother never judged, one frontier daughter recalls. "She always saw all sides and nothing seemed to horrify her, for she always made allowances for human frailty." To survive from day to day was regarded an achievement deserving of praise. Esther Clark remembered her mother's solo wagon ride to save their sheep from a flooding river and how later the men cheered "Leny...
Seagram was founded by Samuel Bronfman, Edgar's father, who was the son of a Manitoba, Canada, frontier hotel owner. In 1925 he set up a modest whisky distillery in Montreal. The company profited enormously during U.S. Prohibition, when rumrunners smuggled Seagram's whisky to a thirsty market in the U.S. Since 1947 the company has been the world's largest distiller. Edgar succeeded his father as head of the company...
Camelot is alive and well, on motorcycles-in Pittsburgh. The redneck revenge movie has found a new hero-in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars-in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...