Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Dark to Light. "You know, when you go by on a train," Hopper once said, "everything looks beautiful. But if you stop, it becomes drab." Hopper recaptured the magic of his first fleeting impression by eliminating detail. His canvases are generalized, his faces chastely drawn. But if this spared him the flaws of everyday existence, it also left him detached from the hurly-burly of everyday events. Hopper's canvases are universally lonely...
...struggle. The scene, portrayed for what must be the millionth time, begins this assembly-line film, which includes almost every other cliche known to Western man. Nearly as old as the plot are the actors. An aging gunfighter (John Ireland), fleeing from his reputation, meets up with a wagon train carrying an aging, golden-haired lady (Virginia Mayo). Soon they are pursued by an aging villain (Scott Brady) and some aging Indians. In the end, Ireland blasts and batters his way out of trouble, and decides to remake his life at the Mayo clinic...
Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...
...Where I train in Texas there's a lot of smoking of grass because it's close to the border and so easy to get. The Airborne paratroopers, especially the ones who have been to Vietnam and are coming back for their medic training, are all potheads because in Vietnam the stuff grows wild and free and you can sit around your camp fire in the Mekong Delta and they say you can just reach out and put up a handful of hemp leaves and throw them on the fire. They also tell me there's a terrific black market...
...Colombia some 300 Castroite guerrillas in two main bands roam the countryside. In recent weeks they hijacked a train, killed 15 army troopers in an ambush in mountainous Huila province and shot to death six more in an attack on an army convoy near Chaparral, 115 miles southwest of Bogota...