Word: cowboyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double take when he spied the 22-year-old confessed aerobiholics working out in a California health club, and decided that they would be ideal for Perfect!, his new movie based on his Rolling Stone article "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Latham, who turned an earlier story into Urban Cowboy, has once again lassoed John Travolta for the lead role as a reporter who works for a Rolling Stone editor, portrayed verisimilarly enough by Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner. The twins play two of the many "good-bodies" whom Reporter Travolta interviews during his investigation of the health-club scene...
...would vote for Mondale for President only if Hart was on the ticket for Vice President and being groomed for 1988/1992 or if there was a woman or a black V.P. candidate. I am tired of old men. The Democrats are running against an aged celluloid cowboy. Why not give him a ride for the money...
Reagan's magic seems to be working abroad as well as at home. In the past, many foreign leaders privately scorned the former actor as a Hollywood cowboy, a naïf at statecraft. Yet even the most skeptical heads of government at the Western economic summit were reassured by Reagan's poised leadership style...
...house. In this underworld, usually located in downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know of Hit Man Eddie Moke in Stick, for instance, is that he changed his image from heavy metal to urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk and because he thought it was cool." Cornell Lewis, a black ex-con houseman...
...This cowboy was born Issur Danielovitch in upstate New York. His parents were from Russia. And, he says, "I never rode a horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked...