Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa Barbara hangar to welcome the Queen on another red carpet, and back up Refugio Road, past somebody's hand-lettered WELCOME LIZ AND PHIL sign, to the Ranch in the Sky. En route Her Majesty put on rubber boots and a Burberry mackintosh; the President changed into cowboy boots, denim jacket and Western string tie. The hours of tough (and maybe gratuitously risky) travel were all for the sake of a Tex-Mex feast: tacos, enchiladas, stuffed chilies, guacamole, refried beans. Just after the Queen and Philip took off back down the mountain, the fog lifted...
Meanwhile, in the desert near Palm Springs, Calif., at the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, where Hubbard once stalked the sands wearing a cowboy hat, cursing and yelling as he directed Scientology films, security is tight. Guards at the Gilman retreat scrutinize cars moving along a highway past a black iron gate, and security men range amid the cactus, chattering into walkie-talkies. There is a sign that says GOLDEN ERA STUDIOS. The only visible reminder of the former presence is a bronze plaque on a replica of a ship's deck. It is dedicated...
...Cowboys' uniform," says Wilbur. "It strikes hate and loathing in my mind, almost in a Pavlovian sense." It is not only the Cowboys' metallic blue uniforms. After Marshall died in 1969, Dallas in many ways achieved the Redskins owner's dream of a national team, a New York Yankees of the N.F.L. Beyond sports, the Cowboys may have some culpability in the entire Texas wave the country has suffered, from that cheesy show on television, Dallas, to the Lone-Star cafés, pointy boots, ten-gallon hats, all the trappings of the urban cowboy...
...Swann and the 19th-century villagers, it remains fascinated by old-fashioned gunplay. Director William Dear seems to have decided that audiences would never be happy without a shoot-'em-up subplot. All the audience really wants, however, is to see Swann use a little modern-day unfortunately, the cowboy subplot wins out over any such...
...Dallas Cowboy Philosopher Duane Thomas, whose 1971 wisdom surpassed understanding