Word: buckarooing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION...
...scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
There are other problems. Black movies tended to imitate the white genres, right down to westerns with such unlikely titles as Bronze Buckaroo. They were almost all without militancy, and at every turn of the plot endorsed the go-along-to-get-ahead values of the black bourgeoisie of that time, including its color caste system. The hero and heroine tend to be lightskinned, the villain and the comic relief darker. Says William Greaves, a film maker who began his career as a stage actor who worked in black films: "The Hollywood films were an environmental factor; they created certain...
...Their buckaroo journalism is better at exposing a corrupt county commissioner than at exploring the consequences of a commission's zoning plans. Only belatedly have the papers seen the ecological risks of overdevelopment, and the failing has been greatest in such boom towns as Orlando and Fort Myers. Further, the all-out coverage after eruptions like the Miami riots does not make up for a lack of reporting about tensions as they build...
...Uston read Beat the Dealer, a 1962 book by Mathematician Edward Thorp, the "father" of card counting. Uston, a statistics, mathematics and computer buff, was fascinated, and while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six years he worked feverishly to acquire the necessary skills, practicing rigorous memory drills and doing complex statistical calculations. In 1974 he went to Harrah's Casino in Reno to put himself to the test. He won $3,000 and never looked back...