Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real story is the extent to which Americans of Latin descent are in the mainstream of Western life. Come out and see for yourself...
...Western Pacific (afloat and ashore, including 35,000 Navy men on station off Viet...
Effective Counterpoint. Even as Gromyko spoke, the first Soviet warships ever to venture into the Western Hemisphere's waters cruised off the U.S. coast bound for Cuba. At first, the Soviet presence seemed like a direct reaction to Nixon's announced plans to visit for a day in Rumania next month. Were the Soviets trying to show that two can play at the game of intruding into the other's backyard...
JIMMY Stewart recently criticized Support Your Local Sheriff on the grounds that the movie had purposely set out to violate the western myth and "when the myth becomes legend I believe in printing the legend." The quote is a bastardization of a line delivered to Stewart in John ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and in its original context is a very bitter statement of an author (Ford) attempting to reevaluate his entire system of values. Stewart's recent use of the quote is not only far more common, it derives from a very dangerous assumption: that there...
Many critics have tried to prove this proposition (the most famous of these is Robert Warshaw's essay "The Western" included in Dan Talbot's Film: An Anthology). Their reliance either on not calling a film a western merely because it does not fit a presupposition or on setting up as many as ten distinct types of westerns (the lone man western, the calvary western, the adult neurotic western, etc.) should be evidence in itself of the dubious quality of this theory. However, what concerns me more at this moment is the effect this idea has on filmmakers themselves...