Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the medium's infancy, but for decades the source materials were mainly one-shot plays or marginal TV fare. In 1955, Marty, a faithful rendering of Paddy Chayefsky's drama, was a critical success that won the Oscar for best picture, and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Days of Wine and Roses. A dormant period was broken...
...does the job -- it allows you to spend a perfectly agreeable evening without making you feel completely stupid or totally conned. The film offers us Mel Gibson as a new Bret Maverick, the Western gambler, as well as the old TV Maverick, James Garner, now playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next good part to develop. Jodie Foster has to work harder as a gambling lady who exists mostly to bicker with Bret...
...could be naughty, perhaps acting out of knowledge of her husband's indiscretions. Before the brutal end of the New Frontier came, there was the feeling that the two had grown closer together because of the inexorable public pressure that surrounded the White House. But in the summer of 1963 she went off with her sister Lee Radziwill for a European cruise, stayed twice as long as scheduled as stories of nocturnal sightings filtered back. Jack was sore. That was one of the reasons she went to Dallas in November on that . doomed political junket, a gesture of contrition...
...already playing games, exchanging mail and entertaining themselves on the computer networks. Although a switched, broadband network could serve both computer users and television viewers, cable-TV operators in particular seem reluctant to allow computer owners to plug in. The cable operators, contends Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest group involved in electronic communications issues, "have a couch-potato vision of the future...
...well known that Los Angeles was a formidable frontier until it was civilized by Walter O'Malley. O'Malley was one of those rare pioneers. Where others saw semiarid desert populated by Chumash Indians -- Los Angeles was then little more than a bedroom suburb of the Mojave -- he saw season attendance of three million and the elimination of rainouts. He planted groves of orange trees, dropped hints among all of his friends about the possibility of a film business, suggested the birth of an aerospace industry (Mr. Northrup to O'Malley in their now-famous meeting: "Aerospace? Explain!") and relocated...