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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...
...Dead are popular, it is to their own credit as artists. When the Dead came to town they made lots of people fucking happy, and if that bugs you. I'm sorry for you. You are one sad buckaroo. Robert Alan Rosenberg...
...money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number of the letters written by the old buckaroo of the open road, the advocate of "the broad masculine manners of these States," were nothing more or less than love letters to young men. The caution he used in this clandestine correspondence seems to have carried over into his other letters...