Word: cowboying
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...sure. Plenty. Cowboy hats, sun hats, a couple of tricornes, several cardboard crowns, a red-white-and-blue beret. California wore black Zorro hats, and a delegate from New Jersey had an elephant head on his head-if that counts as a hat. One woman at the convention wore a straw skimmer with an elephant on top, which also wore a hat, an Uncle Sam. She was holding a Cabbage Patch doll, which wore another skimmer, on which stood another elephant...
...almost all the local hunches give the state and its 29 electoral votes to Reagan. For one thing, although the Hispanic vote is significant (17.7%) and overwhehningly Democratic, macho Mexican-American men may resist the prospect of a female Vice President. For another, Reagan's happy-go-lucky cowboy style and his free-market economics seem to suit Texans...
...atmosphere was more Big D than Big Blue. Everyone was given a cowboy hat and bandanna, beer and wine were freely consumed, and country music played. Unusual goings on for a company famous for dark blue suits and white shirts and where liquor is not permitted at official functions. In the words of one independent IBM dealer, the three-day extravaganza was "on the tasteful side of gaudy...
...Windsors' attic must be quite a sight. Consider only the old hats Prince Charles, 35, must have tossed up there. At one public moment or another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
...sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer, having mastered the intricacies of donning such a garment, emerges not as an urban cowboy but as an urban guerrilla, ready for a street fight in the great fashion...