Word: cowboying
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...William Blakley, 62, Dallas millionaire and conservative ("Cowboy Bill" to his friends, "Dollar Bill" to others), who has warmed Johnson's seat by appointment and likes Washington too much to give it up. He plays the Texas headlines adroitly from Washington...
...action scenes, in fact, are ingenious and exciting. Brando seems to combine a small boy's infatuation with violence and a dancer's flair for movement. Director Brando, however, comes off much better than Actor Brando, the Method Cowboy, who incessantly mumbles, scratches, blinks, rubs his nose and sulks. In short. Brando plays the same character he always plays, the only character who seems to interest him: Marlon Brando. A childish thing indeed...
...Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and it spewed out masses of bills aimed at grabbing control of the city's whole school system and cutting off pay to teachers at the integrated schools. The Federal District Court fought back with armloads of restraining orders, finally enjoined some 700 state officials, including the Governor and the entire legislature...
...United Artists) is a dozen pictures rolled into one. Most of them, unfortunately, are terrible. It is Playwright Arthur Miller's first picture and the late Clark Gable's last. It is a routine gland opera, an honest but clumsy western, a pseudosociological study of the American cowboy in the last, disgusting stages of obsolescence, a raucous ode to Reno and the horrors of divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence in American life...
Roslyn, the film's heroine, is admittedly Marilyn. Gable's Gay, the aging cowboy, obviously speaks for Miller. The two meet in Reno, where she has spent six weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death...