Word: cowboy
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George W. Bush abandoned his studied air of mild sedation only once during his prime-time press conference last week. His eyes lighted up when he was asked if he would call for another U.N. vote on Iraq. A poker metaphor escaped from his Inner Cowboy. "It's time for people to show their cards," he said, as if he actually enjoyed the prospect of a confrontation with France, Russia and the others. The tactic was unexpected; the belligerence, revealing. The President is ticked off, but he is confident, and he is calling France's bluff. Win or lose...
Then again, God may not have reckoned with a man of Libeskind's willingness to accommodate or his industrial-strength charm. In the years ahead, his tommy-gun speech, his more or less Polish accent and his hand-tooled cowboy boots will become as familiar to New Yorkers as Sarah Jessica Parker and her Manolo Blahniks. His intense campaigning for the project made him a target of criticism. But Libeskind has produced a design worth campaigning for. At its symbolic center is the "bathtub," the scorched and scoured pit in which the foundations of the Trade Center once stood, plus...
...he’d be safe? The foreign experts were doubtful. As one might expect, there was plenty of hostility toward George W. Bush at Charlie’s on Sunday. Most suggested that their friends back home viewed Dubya as the typification of America, a swaggering and headstrong cowboy determined to shoot down everything in his path. (Even if the Democrats can’t register these foreigners to vote, perhaps they should consider hiring them as speech writers...
Fiction: The standard Midwestern uniform consists of cowboy hats and NASCAR apparel...
Fact: In my junior year of high school, I remember there was a big brawl in the school parking lot between some cowboy boot wearing hicks and a group of gangsta-wannabe thugs. If that’s not cultural diversity at its most potent, then I don’t know what...