Word: cowboy
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When a pure-blooded cowboy is willing to come to the East Coast, there’s got to be a darn good reason. A sprinkling of people from the real, genuine West have found the long journey to Johnston Gate worthwhile, if slightly jarring, bringing their roots with them in symbolic ways and counting the days until they can return to the land where the skies are uncloudy...
...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...
...business of childhood proceeded, even under the dead hand of communists. Andris and his friends watched prewar American cowboy movies, stole candy and practiced various forms of juvenile delinquency. They traded the usual sexual misinformation. After Stalin's death in 1953, in a citywide funeral march, Andris and his schoolmates were seized by a fit of giggles: "We couldn't stop, perhaps exactly because it was so dangerous...
...twin sister. It was so powerful to sing that old folk song and be showered with love and affection and enthusiasm and encouragement by both of them. That was an event. That was my moment. From there on, when people asked, I didn't say baseball player or cowboy, I said I wanted to be an entertainer. Soon after dropping out of acting school at Carnegie Mellon and after having been busted and bailed out for marijuana possession, I wrote my first song. I was living with my grandmother in Watch Hill, R.I., working in a boatyard, trying...
...this race the Republicans hold the experience card; Earley is a former state attorney general, who warns that a Democratic governor will bring a tax hike. An old-fashioned Republican in an old-fashioned Republican state, Earley often shows up for campaign appearances wearing a business suit and cowboy boots...