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...woman's clothing is a more complex matter. Necklines are low, low, low: no turtlenecks here. The dresses frequently seem inappropriately bright for the historical period. The acidic green gown on the cover of Frontier Flame...the obnoxiously fuschia dress pictured on Lawless...the electric, leathery blue gown shown on The Spitfire... probably anachronistic, but sexy...
...successful in recent years as the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Its tony TV movies, usually uplifting slices of Americana (Sarah, Plain and Tall; Promise), have consistently won Emmys as well as high ratings. O PIONEERS! (CBS, Feb. 2, 9 p.m. EST), Willa Cather's 1913 novel about the Nebraska frontier, must have seemed an ideal Hallmark project. It is certainly ideal for Jessica Lange, one of those over-40 movie actresses who are increasingly turning to TV for "mature" roles. As Alexandra Bergson, the Swedish farmer's daughter who tames the "wild land," she has a steely grace. But what...
...several occasions Quasha's deals have been marked by apparent conflicts of interest. Last year he tried in vain to get Harken to buy a privately held refinery, Frontier Oil, in which he owned a sizable stake. In another instance Quasha sold Harken's Hawaiian retail unit to a company controlled by both his own family and the South African Ruperts. Harken booked an $8 million gain on the deal, only to write it all off later as a loss...
...Expo's Administration Building -- but where Gibbon, sitting on the steps of Rome's Aracoeli church, had a vision of the falling Roman Empire, Adams saw a rising empire. Another visitor to the fair, historian Frederick Jackson Turner, delivered a famous paper there, saying that the internal frontier was closed; but America would, by the end of the decade, add to its dominion Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, Samoa and Wake Island, while occupying Cuba. The American Century had begun...
...this politically correct prequel, Hawkeye displays the Eurocentric tendencies to hunt and waste. Local Native Americans lecture him on ageism, gender bias, affirmative action and ecological consciousness until he has a nervous collapse, jettisons his rifle and opens a frontier health-food store...