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...fair, I will say that this album is good--real good. Even great. Great in a peaceful, easy way. Not in the blockbuster, gangbuster, rootin'-tootin', anthemic terms of Born In The U.S.A, terms that defy even the terms that I've just used. That album was larger than life, larger than Springsteen, and therefore it made Springsteen larger than himself...
DIED. Russell ("Lucky") Hayden, 68, né Pate Lucid, once known as the "rootin', tootin', ridin' Romeo of the screen." A sidekick to William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series, he toured the country in 1950 asking kids if they approved of kissing in westerns (87% favored it if there was plenty of hard riding and fighting beforehand); of pneumonia; in Palm Springs...
...Lone Ranger and Tonto time. City dudes are sporting wide-brimmed cowpoke sombreros (often with Indian accents of feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady on the Marlboro man's arm is apt to resemble Pocahontas, in a fringed T shirt, multicolored headband, squash-blossom necklace, beaded deerskin bag with dangling mink paws and -the essential accessory-white, fringed moccasins. Some squaws without reservations...
...their trust when he visited the home of one of his clients, who was calling her hogs "Arnold" and "Porter." A neighbor scolded her, saying Arnold & Porter were only trying to help them, and she should show more respect. The answer came, "I know that, they are out there rootin' for us, aren't they...
...time, he cut down on his production of gallery art and began to turn himself into a rootin'-tootin' mixture of Zen monk and Texas daddy, full of Jack Daniel's and koans, moving from one collective project to the next and plunging into a sequence of causes. These have run from EAT (Experiments...