Word: cowboy
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...performed for the press after his NATO meeting n Brussels on Wednesday. He said something there to the effect of "There's people out there trying to blow us up, and we've got to stop ?em." To the Europeans, that epitomizes their idea of reckless cowboy talk...
...people who came to listen couldn't vote. For 2 1/2 hours the rivals argued nonstop about a variety of topics including what to do with the city's poorly managed garbage dump. And it was kind of interesting that two candidates showed up in western shirts, cowboy boots and hats...
...already in a few work arenas, like newscasting and fashion modeling, and computer-generated talking heads are never late, always friendly and don't demand a first-class seat. "LiLi's the cheapest veejay to travel with," says the man who made her, James Speck, creative director of Cowboy Water Design. "She never complains...
...Perhaps if George Bush had not been so determined to erase his Yankee roots and to exchange his penny loafers for cowboy boots, he might have seen Jeffords' change coming. He could have looked mighty close to home: in his own family. His grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was a moderate and cranky New England Republican not unlike Jim Jeffords. Even Bush's father, with his early support for Head Start and abortion rights and his disdain for supply-side economics, was once in the maverick Jim Jeffords mold...
...failed 1978 bid to become a Congressman from Midland, Texas. Even his friends in Midland would tease Bush about his preppie East Coast ways, especially his habit of wearing tattered penny loafers without socks. It wasn't long before he chucked the loafers in favor of cowboy boots and was vowing that he would never again allow a political opponent - or a business one, for that matter - to portray him as an effete Easterner...