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...Oakland's fans were indifferent, Denver's are anything but, as a recent court case plainly demonstrates. The facts of the case were simple: Helen Harris had tickets to a Denver Bronco football game. She went to a suburban shopping mall to catch a bus to Mile High Stadium. The bus never came, and Mrs. Harris was forced to return to her home and watch the game on TV. Clearly a heinous crime, Denver Judge John Sanchez acknowledged. He awarded Mrs. Harris $44.70 in damages from the bus company...
...time that Yellowstone became a national park; Ford once worked there. And there is a magnificent view of a setting sun on snowcapped peaks of the Grand Tetons. Thomas Moran did the oil in 1895. To the right of Ford's desk in the Oval Office is Bronco Buster, a bronze by Frederic Remington of a cowboy straining to stay on the back of his plunging horse. Ford's son Steve is working as a cowboy in Montana...
...doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to work on his Ph.D. in motor development in children (TIME, Aug. 12). Denver Bronco Quarterback Charley Johnson has a 1971 doctorate in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson, who specialized in the expansion characteristics of plastics, works in the offseason as an engineer and salesman for a firm that builds natural gas compressing stations...
...does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work. And when he applied brush and watercolors to certain subjects-a bucking bronco, a string of Indian ponies-Borein had a rare gift for bringing them back alive...
...camera, and the scenes of violence are handled with a singular awkwardness, as if the participants were afraid to do one another any real harm. The performances of Walker and Gooding, however, have a kind of scruffy street authenticity. Despite abundant flaws, there is hardly a moment in Bronco Bullfrog that does not display a vigorous, very real talent...