Word: cowboy
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...provide tours of the abandoned mine shaft; they speak in twangy "interpretive accents." After dinner, the miners put on a "stomp" with guitar music and surprisingly pungent jokes. Another day's hike leads to a cattle ranch set in a lush green valley. At that campfire, a talented cowboy-guitarist nicknamed Fluffy performs the Oreo Cookie Blues, which he describes as a "song of addiction." Next morning the scouts heat irons to mark their hiking boots and hats with Philmont's brand: a P and "crazy" (backward) S under...
...with blond hair, Chase does not seem the type to win a Legion of Merit from Ms. magazine. "On weekends he's wearing his cowboy hat and driving his pickup," says Betsy's brother John, who is their next-door neighbor in Clear Lake, just south of Houston's city limits. "You'd equate that kind of Texan with a male chauvinist." Wrong. Watson describes her husband as "extremely self-confident and self-assured. And my success does not jeopardize his own masculinity or feelings of worth." But that power balance shifts the moment they walk through the front door...
...know all the Boston guys pretty well," said Hughes, wearing the rattlesnake cowboy boots he picked up in Oklahoma City, Okla., during the 1989 National Sports Festival. Terriers Shawn McEachern and Amonte also played in Oklahoma...
...elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist. A hallmark of populism, from the left or the right, is exploitation of anger against the status quo. "I understood the outrage," Silber said...
...give it a bumper-sticker name: Buffalo Commons. Their good fortune was to be near New York City, which still tingles from the memories of its rich sons, like Theodore Roosevelt, sent west a century ago for thrills and toughening. The national media reveled in an honest-to-goodness cowboy story...