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...Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known as Area...
This double sense of remoteness and self-importance--of living simultaneously on the fringe and at the center of things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of the Sierra Madre knows, gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses...
What's harder to understand is the critical enthusiasm and good grosses that have so far greeted Ulee's Gold. Some of it probably derives from a desire to welcome Fonda back from his long exile on the fringes of moviemaking--B keeping of another kind--and the fact that, in his maturity, he reminds us a little bit of his father. Most of it, though, surely arises from the desire to encourage an alternative cinema of sobriety and humanity in the midst of summer's heavily mechanized silly season. The key moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film...
DIED. JOHN AKII-BUA, 47, Uganda's gold-medal-winning Olympic hurdler who, for all his leggy might, could not scale the obstacles erected by Idi Amin's brutal regime; of undisclosed causes; in Kampala, Uganda. At Munich in 1972, Akii-Bua dashed to a record-breaking finish and joyously leaped over the hurdles a second time. He was later barred from international competition by the government and driven into exile...
...African elephants that exist today may be wiped out by lifting the seven-year ban on selling "white gold" [ENVIRONMENT, June 16]. Allowing legal trade with even one country, Japan, for example, will inevitably lead to the poaching of these beautiful creatures and to their gradual disappearance. Why can't we let them be in the wild? I agree with the U.S. in opposing even limited ivory sales. DURGA DEVI RAMANAN Pittsford...