Word: ruggedized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the moment one sees June (Lisa Eichhorn) the heroine of Wildrose, hacking away at a tree stump in the woods, one realizes that this is one of those films out to defend that mythic territory of American folklore known as rugged individualism. Wildrose, like Country and Heartland, attempts to...
The struggle in composing one's ad is to be distinctive and relentlessly self-confident. What woman could resist the "rugged rascal with masculine determined sensual viewpoint"? An ad should not overreach, however, like the woman who began: "WANTED: One Greek god of refined caliber."
The luxury car is a stretched version of American Motors' Grand Wagoneer, a favorite of skiers and suburbanites. The fancier touches include a built-in champagne bucket and an 8-in. color television, but for rugged back-country terrain, the four-wheel limo also features an electronic shock-absorption system...
Yet for 1,936 miles -- from the Pacific Ocean, across the rugged coastal mountains, the hot sands of the Sonoran Desert, the high plains near El Paso and finally the verdant citrus fields that end at the Gulf of Mexico -- the largely unmarked frontier is as much a link between...
"It is a huge Soviet force. This is turning into the biggest offensive of the war," said Sayed Majrooh, head of the independent Afghan Information Center in Peshawar, Pakistan, last week. According to Majrooh, Soviet troops, backed by jet fighters and helicopter gunships, have been seizing strategic mountain passes along...