Word: cowboying
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...reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by playing the script as farce...
...American Football is not only the most extraordinary sport I know, it is a piece of Americana as American as the Empire State Building or a cowboy film and provides a wealthy source for the student of folklore." These words, spoken once by the well-known English author, Graham Greene, are a striking comment on this peoples' "Sport" of the U.S.A...
...train, he sets out for a small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy, dragged him through a bonfire, killed his mules and burned his wagons...
...settlers filled up the West, they adapted their breeds, e.g., the cowboy's quarter-horse, the gentleman farmer's Tennessee walking horse, the American saddle horse, to suit the jobs at hand. The famed Pony Express brought 500 top-quality horses, ranging from three-quarter English thoroughbreds to golden California palomino mustangs, to supply relays for the rugged 2,000-mile route from St. Joseph, Mo., over the Rockies and west to Sacramento. Calif...
...writers (Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...