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This film could easily have been released during the 1950s, when sanitary mega-historical Hollywood epics were the norm. In fact, Far and Away features an elaborate recreation of the Oklahoma land rush, when settlers launched a mad, ruthless wagon and horse race across the western prairie to claim free plots of land offered by the U.S. government...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Far From Culture, But Good As Escape | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...lives near Porter Square, teaches three tutorials in the History and Literature Department, and drives a station wagon...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Dunster Tutor Noel Ignatiev, A Lifetime of Fighting 'Injustice' | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Judi Bari, a member of the radical group Earth First!, is still hurting from the explosion in 1990 of a pipe bomb in her Subaru station wagon. The Oakland blast left her with a paralyzed right foot and a dislocated spine. Earth First! is known for tactics that sometimes endanger the safety of loggers, though Bari insists that she is against violence. Authorities arrested her on suspicion that she knowingly transported the bomb, but no charges were brought. Bari claims that officials have failed to investigate the case seriously, and has filed a civil rights suit against the Oakland police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Species No, not owls or elephants. Humans who fight to save the planet are putting their lives on the line. | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...hero who dreams of escaping to the Southwest, is made to sing "Santa Fe" while ambling through a dusty, too picturesque New York street at night. The staging goes well beyond run-of-the-mill fantasy when it sends him leaping onto a horse and frolicking on a hay wagon...

Author: By Ozan Tarman, | Title: Singing and Dancing Newsboys | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...more than 30% -- though it speeds up the burning of carbohydrates. When fat isn't metabolized, it gets deposited on thighs, hips, stomach and other embarrassing parts of the body. So while one answer to an inappropriately bulging physique might be to give up alcohol entirely, going on the wagon is not necessarily the only solution. Another is simply to reduce the percentage of fat in the diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whence Beer Bellies? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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