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This tale of a train robber in turn of the century Oregon and southwest Canada contains the most spectacular landscape scenery of any movie in recent memory. The film essentially follows the trains which are the source of the Grey Fox's (Richard Farnsworth) plunder as they wend their lone ways through the small towns and steppes of the Yukon and British Columbia...
...citizenship: attachment to duties and obligations. We are seeing a public recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that went on for years with hardly a peep from Congress -- events whose numbers were so huge as to be beyond the comprehension of most people...
...railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have only to read Parkman or Prescott to realize that. But after it left the histories and sank deep into popular culture, it became a potent myth of justification for plunder, murder and enslavement...
...creatures, men and women in the thrall of belief so powerful that they ignore all else -- even reason -- to ensure that reality catches up with their dreams. The vision may be the glory-driven daring of a Saddam Hussein, who foolishly tried to extend his rule by conquest and plunder, or the seize-the-day bravery of a Boris Yeltsin, who struggled to free a society from seven decades of iron ideology. But always behind the action is an idea, a passionate sense of what is eternal in human nature and % also of what is coming but as yet unseen...
...ready to conclude that California is over the hill, descending a spiral of environmental, fiscal and social calamities. There is even a group of so-called declinists, like UCLA economist David Hensley, whose downward forecasting has been caricatured by others as a Blade Runner vision of economic stagnation, environmental plunder, surging crime and ethnic conflict...