Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alan Ladd rides off into the vast Western sky in Shane. Henry Fonda, as Wyatt Earp, kicks up his feet in front of the saloon in My Darling Clementine. Marshal Dillon stares down Dodge City's main street, and the boys of the Ponderosa sit tall in the saddle together. Few images in popular entertainment have the primal resonance of those from the classic westerns. Or at least they used to. The western, a genre that once proliferated on the big screen and small, until quite recently seemed to be one step away from Boot Hill...
...goes back to the old Western mentality--yourun down the opposition any way you can and usethe public's lack of understanding to createfear," Wong says...
...Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. Mighty Charge on Thursday, Nov. 11. Banki Banx on Friday and Saturday...
...haven't forgotten, conservatives regard ancient Greece as the origin of Western civilization. If you haven't forgotten, ancient Greece glorified homosexual love. The closest civilization has ever come to destroying itself was in this century when a nation more concerned about 'the common good' than the rights of individuals, imprisoned and murdered as many homosexuals as it could. And did it without shame...
Moreover, if an oil or trade embargo is imposed, U.S. analysts fear a violent response. Also, Pyongyang diplomats have said privately that any attack on their nuclear facilities would trigger an invasion of the South. None of these risks of escalation are worth taking yet, since Western intelligence analysts are fairly sure that the North has only small amounts of plutonium and no operational bomb. Further, says a State Department official, "none of our main interlocutors on this issue -- South Korea, Russia, Japan, China -- think negotiations have been exhausted...