Word: outposts
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Right now, the most diverting art shop in Manhattan is the Amel Gallery, an outpost of the avantgarde. Among works by six artists are paintings that talk, roar, screech, and make sounds like demented woodpeckers trying to fell a redwood forest...
Zapo (Dustin Hoffman) is Momma's boy draftee at a lonely outpost whose parents come to cheer him up in the midst of battle. They are joined at their picnic by a similarly uncourageous enemy soldier, and the plot can hardly go anywhere from there...
Zulu vividly re-creates an episode from the British conquest of Zululand in 1879. Its heroes were some 130 redcoats who made a blood-and-guts stand against 4,000 proud Zulu warriors besieging the mission outpost at Rorke's Drift, Natal. Eleven of the survivors were later awarded Britain's coveted Victoria Cross, the most ever given after a single military action...
Enroute to Fort Hooker, an outpost "so far west they'll never be heard from again," the lads in Union Blue board a river boat where they reconnoiter a contingent of bawds house-mothered by Joan Blondell and infiltrated by Stella Stevens, a Confederate spy. As an anti-hero of such indolent disposition that he lets a lady in distress fend off a villain singlehandedly, Ford appears bemused when he should be amusing. Douglas looks plain uncomfortable, and well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves...
...Yemen supporting the rebels who deposed the despotic Imam Mohammed el Badr in September 1962-Nasser's force has actually grown by some 12,000 since he agreed a year ago to begin withdrawing his troops-he has been turning more and more heat on the British outpost...