Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corn is mounting, eating away at his 4½?-per-bu. margin of profit. The grain has already been sold, but Troyer will not be paid until it is delivered-and there is no way to get it delivered. Railroads have promised him 87 covered hopper cars to ship the corn, but the cars have not shown...
...carriers held up Russian shipments until November -just in time to coincide with one of the biggest grain harvests in U.S. history and an unprecedented demand by European countries for American produce. The big surge of new orders further clogged U.S. harbors with ships, delaying unloading of grain-laden hopper cars even more. Then Mother Nature stepped in, sending the Mississippi over its banks and disrupting rail operations throughout the Midwest...
Robbing trains and stirring up trouble, he is known as Kid Blue. But when he gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed...
...deliberate echoes here of Brando's classic challenge in The Wild One. "What are you rebelling against?" one harried adult asked him, and Brando just shrugged and said, "Whatya got?" What is different in Kid Blue is the tone. Brando's cyclist was a threat, an aggressor; Hopper's outlaw is a puzzled, slightly paranoid victim. Trying to go straight and live right, he only makes the citizens more suspicious. They are resentful in some vague way, and the sheriff, Mean John ("But only my friends can call me that") Simpson, is disbelieving. "I seen boys like...
...resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order and the encroachments of civilization. Bickford, as dexterously played by Hopper, shows signs occasionally of becoming a kind of surrogate James Dean, a prairie rebel without a cause. Hopper started working in films about the same time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather the same style. But Hopper is an actor of quick cunning...