Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frontier between truth and fiction used to be a well-lit border, and anyone caught trying to cross it was severely punished. No longer. So many others are now romping in what used to be the press's own domain-contemporary history and the lives of current public figures-that it's hard to tell the truth without a score card, and no one is providing...
...nonetheless self-regarding to a pathological degree. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees failure. "We had all our values wrong," he tells his current actress girl friend. "We expected too much. Trusted too much. There's a great chasm in twentieth-century history. A frontier. Whether you were born before nineteen thirty-nine or not. The world, time...it slipped. Jumped forward three decades in one. We antediluvians have been left permanently out of gear...
They are named Phantom Flasher, Lazarus, The Red Onion, Chiquita Vanana, Vandal and such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...
Publicly, Egypt insisted that its bitter four-day mini-war with Libya (TIME, Aug. 1) had been no more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
Since that time we have had the Fair Deal, the Crusade, the New Frontier, the Great Society, the New Federalism and the New American Revolution. Jimmy Carter broke the tradition...