Word: cowboyed
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...General Motors executive who was Iacocca's own choice to succeed him. Now here he was at 67, having brought the giant carmaker back from the edge of bankruptcy twice in 10 years, summing up a fabled career. Though he had lived every boy's dream of becoming a cowboy, he told the crowd, "nobody gets to be a cowboy forever." There was a standing ovation. Such was the beauty of the moment that only afterward did anyone notice that Iacocca had neglected one detail of the final ceremony. Wasn't he supposed to hand over the chairman's gavel...
Iacocca insists the takeover bid is not a strategy to get the old cowboy back in the saddle. "I'm an investor, period," he says. "No directorship, no management, nothing--zero." But even as he says that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week...
...trades clearly inspired by a deep reserve of energy and practical know-how. For thirteen years, the Maestro had his own day, Maestro Day, in his hometown of Albany, California. The event, free to the public and held in the high school gym, featured Gaxiola singing modern day cowboy ballads, playing the piano and painting quick cowboy portraits on stage (and one thousand homemade cookies baked by his wife, Alice...
...Maestro has filled his backyard with cow sculpture, created hundreds of clay cadillacs (the modern cowboy's horse), painted with air brushes and fabric paint and appliqued sequins and playing cards onto his works. Though the work does a very good impression of kitsch, it is distinguished by its relentless variety and Gaxiola's unique, informed stance towards the art World...
Gaxiola lives vigorously and with all the defiantly independent spirit of the cowboy. With the example of his extraordinary life backing up his attitude, the whole takes on rather more than the sum of its parts. The Maestro bright paint stands out against the muddied horizon of the conventional art world with a surprising vigor...