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...throughout the battle on the beach (filmed in Ireland using some 3,000 performers), Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat have been introducing us to members of a small Ranger unit commanded by Tom Hanks' Captain Miller, in effect bonding us with them as they pass through this inner circle of hell, feeling their fear, enduring their losses, sharing their weary triumph when they destroy the enemy pillbox that commands their sector. They--we--have done enough. Time now to rest, regroup...
Desperately seeking new features to distinguish their wares, pager and cell-phone makers are replacing beeps and rings with popular melodies. Nokia's 6100-series cell phones perform The Lone Ranger's theme song (a.k.a. the William Tell overture), the ever popular Charleston Rag and Beethoven's Fur Elise, while Philips' Myna pager croons Over the Rainbow and The X-Files song. Earplugs, anyone...
...movies and on television, Indians have traditionally been cast as powerful shamans, ruthless savages or downtrodden drunks living in tar-paper shacks. Not in Alexie's world. Throughout Smoke Signals--which he adapted from his 1993 short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven--he doesn't just challenge stereotypes, he pokes fun at them. In his tale of two young dudes who leave "the rez" on a road trip of personal enlightenment, the characters ruminate about everything from Dances with Wolves to a native staple known as fry bread. They also shoot hoops, eat at Denny...
...easy, as well, to dislike Carter. Some of his Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason. However, in The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House (Viking; 586 pages; $29.95), historian Douglas Brinkley's verdict on Carter is mostly affirmative. In the first place, Carter's Administration, Brinkley believes, accomplished far more than critics have admitted. President Carter achieved the Camp David accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, a normalization in 1979 of Nixon's China initiative, and other strokes. And Carter's postpresidency, in Brinkley...
...largest Indian tribe. If you arrive around lunchtime, stop at Ramon's, on state highway 264, for some traditional Navajo fare. You might also stop at the Hubbell Trading Post, a site dating back to the 1870s, which is the oldest continuously operating trading post on the reservation. Ranger-led tours are available...