Word: cowboy
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...They’re nothing but money and hype, and while money can buy 26 World Championships—it cannot buy heart. And heart will be the deciding factor this year, as the Sox show the Yankees what it means to play baseball and what it means to Cowboy...
...people from outside South Africa, because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, engaging us on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized. In my judgement, Barbarians alone...
...uses guitar reverb and slow, deliberate whispering to imbue a story of destroyed childhood love with striking grace. Luis Bacalov’s “The Grand Duel – (Porte Prima)” instantly rockets listeners back to their childhood dreams of being the good cowboy in the final gunfight. “Green Hornet” swings in a way that recalls the glory days of Benny Goodman, and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is a ten-minute epic that leaves us feeling as if we?...
...Midwest Grill is an incidental sideshow. The restaurant has a vague cowboy feel, with many quasi-artistic representations of cattle and a large number of equestrian accoutrements. In fact, should selling meat ever become uneconomical, The Midwest Grill certainly has enough leather products on display to immediately relaunch itself as Cambridge’s premier S&M supply store. As it is, however, the wall hangings do enough to convince doubtful patrons that the Midwest to which the title refers is not the repressed and repressive setting of American Gothic, but some exotic, mythical land in the Southern Hemisphere, where...
...year career, Kaneshiro?who speaks five languages and has made films in four countries?has trained his chameleon-like talents on a remarkable array of characters. In Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, he played a mute who rode the carcass of a pig like a cowboy. He made love to an HIV-infected teen in the blockbuster Japanese TV miniseries God Please Give Me More Time. In Returner, he played an orphaned assassin-for-hire, and he was a bowling-addicted stockbroker in another Japanese TV series, Golden Bowl. "I don't let myself follow...