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...almost always had a white trainer, we see the frontiersman in buckskin learning from the Indians how to best handle the dangers of the woods. In his chanting of doggerel before fights and speaking of himself as "so pretty" and "the greatest," he was heir to the charismatic insolence and humor that have always defined our national bad boys...
...DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, buckskin-tassled "Queen of the West" who rode across both big and little screens in two TV shows and nearly 40 films alongside celluloid cowboy husband Roy Rogers; in Apple Valley, California. A single, teenage mother in Uvalde, Texas, Evans worked as a stenographer before launching a career as a radio singer and songwriter who would win a place in the all-time hit parade with the king of cowboy songs, Happy Trails...
...refer not to the buckskin-clad host of The Howdy Doody Show, whose recent death would appear to pose an insurmountable liability to his candidacy, but to Bob Smith, U.S. Senator, who says he is leaning toward a long-shot presidential run. This Bob Smith is not just a Senator. He is a Senator from New Hampshire. And therein lies the key to the excitement his potential candidacy stirs in the reportorial breast...
...Washington were still supporting the Crown), schmoozes with settlers and isn't averse to clasping a woman in his arms and breathing heavy. Day-Lewis alternates between agitation and smugness, not unlike Dylan on "90210". He's handsome, and his hair is flowing, and he's really cute in buckskin trousers. But make no mistake, the real Natty Bumppo would have whipped his callow ass without breaking a sweat...
...fascinating to see how prototypes from older art were adapted to the artists' ends. Thus the motif of Moses leading the Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...