Word: cowboying
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Browsing through a marketplace in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Union's irrigation-ditched Uzbek Republic, a U.S. newsman spotted a cowboy hat, asked its wearer if he was an American. The far-flung tourist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, reckoned he was. Later, Douglas dashed to a nearby cotton-growing collective farm, where he had a joyful, isn't-it-a-small-world meeting with the dozen U.S. farmers also touring the U.S.S.R...
...tents just outside London. Blue-robed Nigerians with pagan tribal scars mingled with costumed Finns and with Indians in colored voile gowns. As usual, the U.S. sent the biggest delegation : 4,000 men and women, hung with cameras, the men wearing broad-brimmed hats, bright neckties and, occasionally, cowboy boots. Great Britain provided 1,600 delegates, Canada 500, Germany 300. Nine Russian Baptists showed up (Russian Baptists have been missing from alliance congresses since 1928), but there were no delegates from other Iron Curtain countries or from Spain (Franco refused exit permits...
...cowboy, the most durable and popular figure on the U.S. screen, has until recent years generally been dismissed by critics and film historians as an error of popular taste. But in French critical circles, the cowboy has long been regarded with deep solemnity. Many a longhaired Frenchman believes that the western film is Hollywood's finest achievement, a kind of national folklore in the making. In a flood of recently published books and articles, Europe's highbrow critics have been soberly examining the western and discovering in it virtues and complexities which even its most loyal fans never...
...troubled for a moment the wife of a farmer . . . The search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...
Even the once blameless sex life of the cinema cowboy has been coming in for some sharp scrutiny from European critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...