Word: frontierment
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Approving the private use of pot, Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz declared: "The state cannot impose its own notions of morality, propriety or fashion on individuals when the public has no legitimate interest in the affairs of those individuals." With a touch of frontier spirit and pride, Rabinowitz elaborated: "Our territory and now state has traditionally been the home of people who prize their individuality and who have chosen to live here in order to achieve a measure of control over their own life styles, which is now virtually unattainable in many of our sister states...
Though the publisher wins most of those lawsuits, his morning daily seems to embody an old frontier reflex: shoot first and ask questions later. While Greenspun guns down local pols in his front-page column, "Where I Stand," his 25 reporters are out digging up screaming exposés in The Front Page tradition. Just before last fall's elections, the paper exposed as a fraud the mail-order gold-and-silver business of Gubernatorial Candidate James Ray Houston (he lost). Last week the Sun revealed how Greenspun and one of his reporters tracked down the lookout...
...couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like Charlene Dallas) exploited as bit players...
...also an environmental and social disaster. Says Republican Governor Jay S. Hammond, a former bush guide: "We can't preserve Alaska as we know it, we're going to have to lose some freedoms and qualities of life here." The boom is bringing to the last frontier urban blight, soaring prices, traffic jams, housing shortages and short tempers...
...police at a demonstration and helps him escape, largely because of his childhood experiences as a fugitive. Unable to understand his rescuer, the student mocks the study of film making as an occupation and needless Michel incessantly about his "bourgeois" life style as they drive to the frontier. Just before they reach the border. Michel stops the car next to a field and walks off, announcing that he is going to search for his past. At this point, the action cuts into the color film, which concludes with the escape of Michel and his family from the Germans to safety...