Word: dudeness
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Short on plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...
Other relaxation is close to the post : an aviation dude ranch called Pancho's Fly-Inn (or the Happy Bottom Riding Club). The ranch has its own airport, lighted at night, so that guests, friends and airborne wayfarers can fly in at all hours. The Fly-Inn is a much-buzzed place. Standing alone on the flat desert with only a few low trees, it invites the dangerous prank that all young pilots play, no matter what the threats of flying field managers or military C.O.s. Chuck Yeager has roared low over the ranch in every sort of airplane...
...take a year-long trip around the world and see everything. The New York Daily News thought there was a better way: "Come to New York . . . and just stay here till the sands run out . . . There is next to nothing [that] you can't find . . . even dude ranches...
Flags throughout the city fly at half-mast today in memory of the hot-headed and charitable. Cambridge-born politician who often received national publicity for his incurable antics and clashes with political and personal enemies. A violent anti-Communist. "Mickey the Dude" could never reconcile his theories with those of the University which he felt "dominated" the Cambridge scene...
...there was another side to "the Dude, "a side than won him re-election after re-election and an unshakable spot in the hearts of local citizens and constituents. This was Mickey the Good Samaritan Mickey the friend who stuck by the veterans in issues, on housing, a memorial plaque, and additional burying space at the Cambridge Cemetery. This was the "politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families...