Word: frontierment
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Lance Morrow's article "Smile When You Say That" [ESSAY, Oct. 28], describing how cowboy logic figured in the recent terrorist incident, was most accurate when it depicted Theodore Roosevelt as a good guy doing battle with bad guys. This image of frontier justice has been a long-standing and powerful one in the American consciousness. After all, when T.R. succeeded the assassinated William McKinley as President in 1901, anguished Republican Business Leader Mark Hanna remarked, "That damned cowboy is President of the United States!" William M. Wemple Fort Washington...
Ronald Reagan deplores the term Star Wars to describe his Strategic Defense Initiative. So does retired Army Lieut. General Daniel Graham, one of the originators of the idea to build a defensive shield against nuclear missiles, even though his organization, High Frontier, uses the words in a new pro-SDI television commercial. George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movie trilogy, hates the usage most of all. His company, Lucasfilm, asked a Washington federal district court to enjoin the TV spot on the ground that it damages a valuable trademark (film revenues to date: $1.3 billion) by taking Star Wars...
...wait, the plot thickens. Lucasfilm has filed suit, and Graham threatens to sue a group that is using a portion of the High Frontier ad containing the words Star Wars in an anti-SDI countercommercial. It figures. How could a Star Wars suit not spin off at least one sequel? MARINES Discordant Notes...
...routes where tickets hadn't been selling, and they wanted to fill those planes." One airline that has abstained so far from the Thanksgiving bargains is People Express. The discount carrier said it was busy enough and had already lowered some prices to Western destinations served by Frontier, the airline that People acquired in October...
...biggest changes came just this month, however. First, in a frontal assault on the state's image as a vast frontier-era saloon where a person is free to lose his life to vice as long as he doesn't take other people with him, the legislature prohibited smoking in all public places, including bars and restaurants. Only 10 other states have passed such sweeping laws, including New York, California and Massachusetts--places that rugged, traditional Montanans not only revile as effete and uninhabitable but also will seldom confess to having visited, even if they have family members in them...