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David Carr, a friendly, bearded fellow from Bakersfield, Vt., says that in the more austere contests ("This one is really just a big party") tunes written after 1911 are not allowed. Carr, who wears a leather cowboy hat because, he says, it is easily recognizable and leads to offers of beer when he wanders in the audience, is a fiddler, but he has brought his guitar too. Since there is a shortage of guitarists today, he has agreed to play backup for more than half of the contestants. This means that he will be competing against himself, but this...
...graced the stage as a sailor, a fawn, a prince, a cowboy and a Greek god. But if anything is going to keep New York City Ballet Star Edward Villella, 45, on his toes, it will be his current role as Visiting Artist at West Point. During one recent appearance on campus, Villella surveyed an aerobic dance class from the sidelines, then took the cadets through the same motions, ballet-style. "They were skeptical at first," says Edward, "but after a while everybody loosened up. Even the plebes were laughing...
...Stockman safety net and the Weinberger window of vulnerability. On the cover of his latest book, Laid Back in Washington, Buchwald relaxes on a Lafayette Park bench, the White House in the distance, a Smith-Corona portable in front of him. the clothes have changed temporarily to Reaganesque cowboy duds, but it's the same old Art, grinning slyly from somewhere within the folds of his paunchy face...
...richman image ballooned when he accepted four pairs of $1,000 cowboy boots with gold Presidential Seals. Then the White House announced the purchase (with private donations) of 4,372 pieces of china for $209,508, or about $ 1,000 a place setting. For politicians, image is often everything. Just when a President is about to cut back on school lunches is not the time to buy teacups and start wearing cowboy boots made of calf and ostrich hide...
PRESIDENT REAGAN did not go horseback riding in the Virginia countryside last week, signaling that something was very wrong in the nation. In fact, things were so serious that the president spent most of Wednesday afternoon--the time usually reserved for playing cowboy--with his advisers trying to figure out what the trouble was. This proved considerably more difficult than mastering a hurdle...