Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier. As a readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website...
...millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier...
...military men, lawmen and empire builders than he did freelance saddle tramps. "Wayne?s imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness he conveyed on screen, implicitly romanticized dutifulness," notes Schickel. "When he died in 1979 most of us no longer found the idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of simple, personal moralities such as Wayne embodied. But that, even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne?s legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep eluding Wills, derive from that...
Hedy Lamarr is always ahead of her time. In 1933 she pranced naked onscreen in Ecstasy. Now Lamarr, 82, is being recognized for a different breakthrough. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is honoring her for a 1942 patent that anticipated frequency-hopping technology used in satellites and cellular phones...
...passivity enlivened by nothing more than watchful alertness. He used this strand in his oddly matched pair of accountants, one of whom is drawn against his will into an assassination plot in Badham's Nick of Time, while the other is bedeviled by various personifications of frontier mythology in Jim Jarmusch's shaggy, satirical western, Dead...