Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. The blood runs thick and often in Sam Peckinpah's raucous western about a band of freebooting bandits operating on both sides of the Tex-Mex border around the turn of the century. The action is plentiful, the performances faultless, and the film itself one of the best of the year...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne, at 62, has the time of his long screen life in this cornball western comedy about a stubborn old marshal who joins forces with a headstrong teen-age girl (Kim Darby) to bring some murderers to justice. The Duke's performance as the marshal proves that his nickname has never been more...
That is putting it mildly. There are at least five more or less active political organizations. Western diplomats are clearly skeptical of their effectiveness. "You can just imagine them sitting around a campfire, saying: 'You can be my finance minister if I can be your defense chief,' " said a foreign observer. "The guy who owns a typewriter is the guy who can start a new Southern Sudanese provisional government." There is no doubting the passion of the rebels. "There will be no solution until the Arabs leave the south," said one leader. "We have nothing more to lose...
...Blighted Coast. Western influence has set in, and not only in Bulgaria. Perched all day on the rocks overlooking the beaches reserved for overseas nudists in Rumania, the natives happily ogle the great expanses of German and Scandinavian flesh stretched out below. In discotheques all along the Black Sea coast, local girls dancing with tourists to Kama Sutra's record of Didn't Want to Have to Do It have been known to offer themselves for the night simply for a bottle of Ambre Solaire sun lotion...
...secure independence in any peace discussions, Ojukwu is relying on a strategy designed to embarrass Gowon. With sizable oilfields in the Port Harcourt area and in the mid-western region, Nigeria ranks as the world's 13th oil nation in terms of annual output (anticipated 1969 production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have...