Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifteen minutes before the guns of the Western Front fell silent, Lieutenant Larry Austin '20 of the U.S. 28th Division and 109th Infantry Regiment commandeered a charge on a German machine-gun nest and was killed shielding his men from crossfire...
...insistent that Russia should be heard as an important voice in world affairs. Yet his handling of Russia's current economic pandemic has been slow, if not tentative. So far, strangely enough, this has not hurt him in the slightest. His popularity ratings keep going up: what Western bankers and the International Monetary Fund call distressing slowness, the Russian public views as refreshing caution...
...same hysteria flows when large, fast-growing high-tech companies start shopping around for new plant locations. Intel Corp. invited six Western states--Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah--to compete for a new computer-chip fabrication plant, or fab, and selected the winner in March 1993. A senior executive explained the decision this way to the San Jose Mercury News: "We're going to build where Intel gets the best deal...
Pollock was born in Cody, Wyo., in 1912 but grew up in California. Much ink has been spilled on the question of how Western an artist he was, how affected by the vast and epic landscapes he may or may not have noticed when he was two years old, but the point seems necessarily moot. In any case, he was not, as Europeans like to imagine, at home on the range, especially since Cody in 1912 was a new tract-housing development, not an Old West town. His father was a dud and a drifter who had little...
...that isn't afraid to rely on excessive campiness. While Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire spaghetti western From Dusk Till Dawn, Vampires doesn't have a shred of seriousness to it. Which is more credible--the sight of Daniel Baldwin cauterizing a wound with the barrel of a freshly shot machine gun or James Woods trying to stuff a dozen decapitated heads into a pillowcase...