Word: cowboying
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...shot a lot of film on it before putting her in Brewster. And then she worked for three months on that little part in McCabe." (In McCabe, Duvall plays the young woman who joins Mrs. Miller's whorehouse after her husband's death and loves a lanky young cowboy who is shot by a gunslinger--played by Keith Carradine, Bowie in Thieves...
...cowboy on the lonely diplomatic trail, the foreign affairs adviser to Hollywood starlets, the dashing bachelor of Foggy Bottom-he is no more. Only recently revealed as the most-admired man in America, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 50, last week abandoned his exaggerated image as a swinger. He got married. Not, as he quipped a couple of months ago, to his most frequent dinner date in that hectic period, Joseph Sisco, his chief adviser on Middle East affairs, but to his longtime close friend, Nancy Maginnes...
...Oyez." The last vestiges of court formality disappeared with the installation in 1972 of Justin Ravitz, 33, an avowed Marxist. When he was sworn in, with cowboy boots projecting from under his robe, Ravitz remained seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. It was, he said, a farce, because there is no "liberty and justice for all." When Ravitz enters court there is no cry of "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" and the assemblage does not rise...
...TECHNICAL ability are the only way you can get away with performing these old tunes, because half the power of a Hank Williams song is mythic: the vision of a train whistle America that's gone; Bob Wills's radio shows in the thirties with chorus girls swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity...
...itself, the local group sharp with nervous potential and playing straight conventional country. It's amazing that a truly quintessential country and the western band like John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys could have risen up in a town where people's idea of a real cowboy bard is James Taylor. But Cambridge isn't entirely unfriendly terrain for a pure and healthy country music to grow in, for these musicians are students in the good sense: If there's one thing students can sometimes do it's imitate with a respect for history. And in this case...