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Only 14 hours after arriving home from his trip to Europe last week, President Clinton donned a pink shirt, khakis and cowboy boots to survey the epic flood that has devastated a vast section of Georgia and the Florida- Alabama panhandle. As his DC-9 descended through the clouds to the airport in Albany, Georgia, the President stared at the muddy waters of the Flint River cascading through the city streets below, washing over the roofs of stores, houses and churches. Even before stopping at a disaster-relief center, Clinton had pledged $60 million in federal disaster aid to help...
...closing ceremony, cowboy-booted host President George Bush says little more than "We're glad you're with us," having forgotten to bring his speech...
...defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty if he can afford to retain one of them. And just as the hearing is a sneak preview of the murder trial, so these bit players seem to be auditioning for a second...
Send a couple of rodeo riders to New York City and you have what everyone must have hoped was the perfect reverse spin on City Slickers. In The Cowboy Way, the two rubes have many stupid misadventures as they try to save a young woman from white slavery. The sheer laziness of the writing, direction and especially the playing by Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland is stunning. The stars seem to be improvising much of the time and winking to the audience, "Hey, folks, we're having a lot of fun!" Hey, guys...
...Cash's voice has deepened with age; he has never sounded more commanding. The songs were written by a range of composers, including Cash, Kris Kristofferson and even hard rocker Glenn Danzig. Each one is moderately paced, simply arranged. Cash's guitar work is direct and intimate -- an old cowboy strumming away around a dying campfire...