Word: buckarooing
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Saddle the Wind (MGM) is a not altogether successful attempt to mingle culture and coyotes. The culture is provided by John Cassavetes, a Stanislavsky-type buckaroo who looks sort of lost in all those wide-open spaces...
Instead of the deputy, a stranger (Burt Lancaster) comes to supper-a rip-roaring young buckaroo, part prophet and part pitchman, with the natural force of a Kansas twister and much the same blowhard approach. The stranger soon has the house in an uproar and Lizzie's head in a whirl with his promise to bring the rain their crops need, and with his threat to awaken the love her heart fears and longs for. Price: $100. "Electrify the cold front!" he cries. "Neutralize the warm front! Barometricize the tropopause!" Says Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer...
...horse . . . with bad teeth, broken bones, a double hernia and lice." The self-description sits James Cagney, the bad man of the title, like Cagney sits a horse. The actor is now 52, but what a hoss-bustin', man-killin', skirt-rippin', jug-totin' buckaroo he can still believably pretend to be. He runs horses on his range, hangs rustlers from his trees, and keeps the home fires burning with a plenty hot number (Irene Papas) who smokes wicked little black cigars between the acts. "I want you feisty!" Cagney croaks, and, just to show...
...Baptist minister's son, Palmer Hoyt was a sergeant major in World War I, then a successful writer of westerns (one Hoyt hero: a buckaroo with a revolving glass eyeball). He joined the Portland Oregonian in 1926, in twelve years rose from copyreader to publisher. In 1946 the Denver Post's owners hired him away on a fat, longtime contract...
...chubby suburbanite was driving home through the outskirts of Detroit. In front of the Methodist Church at Farmington his eyelids dropped, the front wheels fluttered, the car curved, careened, crashed into the back of a parked truck. So died a rootin', tootin', shootin', hell-for-leather buckaroo -radio's Lone Ranger. As founder of the five-year-old Lone Ranger Safety Club, he had broadcast many a strong appeal for careful driving...