Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austin, Nev., a rickety mining town whose gold ore was exhausted years ago, junk-shop proprietor Leo Wolfers is sweeping up a pile of window glass shattered by a mysterious sonic boom. Wolfers is used to the screaming fighter jets that take off from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, but he says the plane that smashed his windows was no ordinary craft. "It was diamond shaped. It could rise straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers...
...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...
...Xers are a better-informed, less gullible and more independent populace. Along with playing in garage bands, Generation Xers have started garage companies--virtual cottage industries in a time of downsizing conglomerates. And these start-ups are creating exciting and lucrative careers, not more McJobs. Yes, "there's gold in them thar hills," and X marks the spot. MARKUS DIERSBOCK Marblehead, Mass...
...MOVIES . . . ULEE'S GOLD: It's hard to understand the critical enthusiasm and good grosses that have so far greeted Ulee's Gold, notes TIME's Richard Schickel. "Some of it probably derives from a desire to welcome star Peter Fonda back from his long exile on the fringes of moviemaking, 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...