Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the culprits, especially in economically depressed Texas, are small- time operators who may grab one cow at a time and load it into a trailer. Says Steve Westbrook, one of 32 private field inspectors hired by the state: "Used to be cowboy types would steal cattle. Now it's everyone, from a person trying to support a drug habit to an unemployed person who is behind on house and car payments." The victims of many of the Texas thefts are city dwellers who have weekend "ranchettes" of about 15 acres, where they relax and keep a few cows...
...editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
...total of 11,709 lbs. for the whole roundup," says John Womble, a carpenter who has been weighing snakes for twelve years. Womble's thick red mustache droops languidly at the corners of his mouth, and he is wearing a red Jaycee vest with badges and pins, a black cowboy hat, boots, gloves and heavy brown nylon chaps. "They're brought in U-Hauls so they don't freeze. We don't buy dead snakes. They come loose in horse trailers where we've got to get in and / pick 'em out, in 55-gal. drums, plastic garbage cans, wooden...
...short, Garner is perfectly cast as a gracefully aging Wyatt Earp in Writer-Director Blake Edwards' curiously graceless evocation of a bygone Hollywood age. The frontier marshal comes to town, at the end of the silent era, to act as technical adviser on a western in which Cowboy Star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is supposed to play him in his younger days...
...Garner's craft and natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...