Word: cowboy
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...Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...
...kick some butt." Make no mistake: the city on the Fox River and Lake Michigan is not exactly paradise. Just like Bedford Falls, it has its dark side. African-American players, isolated and marked as Packers, once likened the town to a prison. After a series of Cowboy-like incidents in the mid-'80s, a Wisconsin legislator proposed that a penitentiary be built in Green Bay "so the players can walk to work." The Packers looked so inept on the field that there were doubts the team that won the first two Super Bowls would ever make it back. There...
...problems since starting college Hometown: Somewhere in the great State of Texas/Sparkling City by the Sea: Corpus Christi Greatest Accomplishment: Several solo piano performances in Carnegie Hall in New York City Ideal Date: February 30th Best way for a girl to get your attention: If she is wearing just cowboy boots and a smile Where to find you on a Saturday night: Alone in my room, organizing my Magic cards—not. First thing you notice about a girl: Her nice big morals Your best pick-up line: Did you just fart, because you blew me away! Something you?...
...controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces a dilemma: unmask Chopeitia's plans for world domination and risk death; or play ball and obtain Chopeitia's genetic treatment for his brain-damaged daughter. As in all good westerns, justice triumphs and a cowboy comes to the rescue. But like a true noirish detective story, Blood on the Saddle preserves its moral ambiguities, and Clot lives to solve other cases. First, though, Reig has a different tale to tell. In his latest novel, Guapa de Cara (A Pretty Face), published in Spain last year...
...fence me in," the cowboy sings, forgetting to add that without a healthy horse or a vehicle that he can afford to drive, he may as well be stranded on the prairie dying of thirst and hunger. To live surrounded by unlimited space that one is incapable of moving through is the quintessential Western nightmare: homebound on the range. Driving back from Bozeman that afternoon, I crunched some more discouraging numbers. I'd always heard that freedom had a price. And soon I'd determined what it was in my case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30˘ a mile. This...