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Word: cowboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proving to be one of the more original--and expensive--rooms on campus. Kasper and his seven roommates have spent some $300 on materials such as wood, nails and plexiglas. This does not include the $2000 stereo with four large speakers that regularly blasts such tunes as "Space Cowboy" at odd hours of the day and night...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: K-Land Bandstand | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they sell bumper stickers that read I'M A ROPER, NOT A DOPER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wyoming: Greasy Work at the Crossroads | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...character, and when he says at the end that he wishes he could be sorry for what he has done it really seems as if someone is forcing Teddy to act the way he does. The scene in which Teddy directs Ryder to gallop around the restaurant like a cowboy and threatens to force him to make love to Angel on the counter while calling the terrified boy a "fag" and "queer," is psychic and physical torture reminiscent of the rape in Deliverance...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: An American Nightmare | 8/18/1978 | See Source »

...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Doll Lib | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...cowboy, the American bedouin, is the original self-contained traveler, but even he and his coach and his equine van can be found these days at rally sites. A ruddy Oklahoman, watering his bronco at the Minnehaha Roadeo, articulated one insoluble problem of motorized life. "The trouble," he said somberly, patting his steed, "is they ain't yet developed a vehikkle with holdin' tanks for hosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: The Motor Homers Gather | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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