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...Olympians traveled to Washington to enjoy a five-day, $950,000 tribute sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some of the athletes had contemplated staying away to protest the boycott, but in the end more than 90% of those who were free showed up. Dressed in their best cowboy outfits (the official U.S. Olympic uniform: denim pants and skirts, plaid shirts, rawhide boots and white western hats), the athletes received gold-plated congressional medals on the west terrace of the Capitol. There, President Carter told them: "It is no exaggeration to say that you have done more to uphold...
...Urban Cowboy's Cherokee Fiddle
...very pro-American, very proud look. You stand up straight because of your boots." Men and women who have never been closer to a horse than a power-steered Mustang are crowding hundreds of new nightclubs specializing in country-and-western music, including one in Dallas - inspired by Urban Cowboy - that features an electronic bucking bull (price per ride: $2 for less than a minute). The clothes are certainly durable, comfortable and generally affordable. For some, they come trailing clouds of glory and nostalgia as well. Says Barbara Cirkva, 32, a buyer for the Cul de Sac boutique at Manhattan...
...Republican right wing that loyally supported Reagan was very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said...
...final book of the tetralogy does, and in the process, insinuates strands of history and myth, philosophy and ribaldry. With a cast of characters that includes Viking Warrior Erik Bloodaxe, Cowboy Star Tom Mix and a deck of World War I Flying Aces, its plot twisted to provide a climactic battle between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring...