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...response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and in a land where once only wars set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. --TIME, July...
...years. And sure enough, Heathen is littered with spookily familiar echoes - of Space Oddity on Slip Away and Heroes on Slow Burn - that will put a smile of recognition on the face of 40-somethings everywhere. Cover versions of songs by The Pixies, Neil Young and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy sidestep nostalgia-creep but prove this is less a classic work, more a classy workout...
Monopolist. Bully. Cowboy. John Malone has heard it all before. As he dominated the U.S. cable-TV industry for much of the past three decades, the CEO of Denver-based TeleCommunications Inc. (TCI) was called plenty of names, including some that can't be printed here...
...Sensenbrenner, a conservative Republican, said he was "deeply troubled by the Department of Justice's failure to consult with Congress over changes to investigative policies that have been in place for more than 20 years." Civil libertarians warned that however sensible the reforms sounded, the potential for abuse by "cowboy" agents was great and that the letter and spirit of the Constitution do not endorse the sacrifice of privacy for security. "You could make the country safer from terror by attending every meeting at every mosque, but do you want to do that?" asks Robert Litt, a top Justice official...
Then, five weeks ago, Cowboy Pictures—a “small but smart” company, according to Toback—agreed to release the film without video rights. Cowboy Pictures took over the deals Toback had negotiated with Brattle and Cinema Village and now plans to expand the film’s release to more than 75 cities...