Word: cowboyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
...that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard Stengel
DIED. Warren Gates, 53, earthy character actor whose laconic manner and menacing Kentucky drawl landed him numerous roles as a moody, alienated cowboy or gangster; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Besides appearing in the TV series Have Gun, Will Travel, Gates was in 40 films, including The Wild Bunch (1969) and the recently released The Border...
...point many have overlooked is that along with wearing chinos and swizzling gin and tonics, it's now "in" among the jet-setters to chuckle and call yourself "conservative It's sort of exclusive sounding, and most public school kids aren't doing it. And with Reagan's benign cowboy humor helping people to forget Nixon and Cambodia and Watergate, the label "Republican" no longer provokes so many raised eyebrows at dorm parties. It's pretty much as Higgins says: a lot of people coming out of the closet and mindlessly calling themselves something their parents have wanted...
Once inside the Coliseum, I was surrounded by a bunch of red-cloaked clones, complete with red cowboy hats decorated with red Badger buttons. They filled up the Coliseum seats to form one big red bowl around the rink...