Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...genre has made a modest comeback recently, with such shows as Paradise and The Young Riders), and a small handful of hit series have been set in the past. But these shows were mainly interested in using the past for its symbolic or mythic value. The Minnesota frontier of Little House on the Prairie and the Depression-era South of The Waltons were essentially the same locale: an all-American Everyplace, where ethical issues and family dramas could be worked out against an idealized backdrop, far from the messy moral ambiguities of modern days...
...contradictions in its own position. The question the radicals must answer is, Why are they Christians at all? Many radicals argue that the way to religious empowerment was pioneered by Jesus as if he were a kind of Kit Carson of the soul. But who needs pioneers once the frontier is opened? It often seems that the radicals cling to Jesus for the sake of the name ID and some pretty 19th century buildings erected in his name...