Word: cowboying
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...Accuse is directed at more than the Napoleonic Code. It is intended to be a reproach to a callous society. But society will seize any excuse, even tepid acting, to avoid recognizing a reproach. And while Brigitte is an adequate comedienne, her dramatic acting is in the old cowboy tradition of two emotions-hat on and hat off. Except, of course, that with BB what comes...
Plugs & Hooks. Experienced boatmen, however, tend to view the Texas mariner sourly. "He's a damned cowboy, that's what he is," says one. "He's got a beer can in one hand, the throttle in the other, and he doesn't know the rules of the road." Hot-rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that...
...Hollywood tradition in only one way-he was married 27 years to the same woman. In 1959 he created something of a stir when he became a Roman Catholic. Not long ago, he talked to his old hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, who lay ill in Minnesota. Drawled the old cowboy: "I'll bet I reach the barn before you do." It was a line worthy of the Virginian, and only Coop himself could have topped it. A few weeks earlier, at a Friars Club dinner in his honor, he rose, carrying the secret of his cancer, and spoke...
Then last March came the case of Dale ("Cowboy") Morris, 36, serving a twelve-year sentence for manslaughter. In Parchman, Morris had behaved himself and become a trusty; he also displayed considerable interest in furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last...
Like many another kid in West New York, N. J., Alfred Siefker, 17, wears a longish haircut, low-slung pegged trousers and a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. The style suggests the drugstore cowboy, but under the disguise Alfred practices a different skill. He is already a dedicated scientist who has just rewritten a chapter of paleontology...