Word: cowboying
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...documentary about a modern-day cowboy spills over into observation of his town, than gropes around to find its lost focal point, and succeeds only in ending three or four times before the end titles; good color photography and John Fahey's original guitar score can't save Donald MacDonald's The Latter Day (UCLA) from being a tedious excursion to low-level technical competence because of its ill-conceived, impersonal idea. We imagine, in watching these films, committees of students in a think-tank saying "Hey, I've got a good idea for a film..." at best, and probably...
...conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
...Johnson, he's a cowboy, and that's saying everything. If he had been born in Europe, he wouldn't have stayed but gone to Africa to hunt water buffaloes or to America to search for gold. But born in the land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned...
...Rides a cowboy all alone...
...STATESMANSHIP AND CRISIS DIPLO MACY. "Ambassador Goldberg, of course, is eager to come back because he's just naturally more at home in cowboy country."-L.B.J. ranch, Texas...