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...showed up last week in a bath of warm rhetoric toward Gorbachev -- quite a turnabout from presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater's denunciation of the Soviet leader two weeks ago as a "drugstore cowboy" on arms control, long on talk and short on action. In an interview last week with European journalists, Bush insisted that his attitude toward Gorbachev's initiatives was "not begrudging...
...gold (and finding it), plus more dances than you'd find in a teenager's calendar. In February Quartzsite plays host to the largest gem and mineral exhibition in the country. And there's an abundance of flea markets, where a person can buy, among other things, crocheted cowboy hats, petrified dinosaur manure, pet ID tags, Whitt's "hillbilly" billfold and racoon-penis earrings -- all at bargain prices...
...imagine that anyone truly misses disco, leisure suits, white polyester, pop rocks, Shaun Cassidy, mood rings, John Travolta, sideburns, Billy beer, pet rocks, Jim Jones, Starsky and Hutch, macrame, fern bars, Leif Garrett, Dynamite magazine, Craig Morton, Carter Country, Orca the Killer Whale, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Debby Boone, Pong, the Captain and Tennille, gas lines, or the movie Ice Castles and its execrable theme song...
...Dallas Cowboy president Tex Schramm is no longer the Cowboy president. He has been named to head the experimental International Football League (IFL), which will field teams from both the United States and Europe. Can you imagine this matchup: Jacksonville vs. Rome? It's very likely...
...recent morning, Willey and a partner, E.D.F. lawyer Tom Graff, headed from their Oakland office down Highway 5 to dicker with irrigation districts on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. An odd pair: Willey, somewhere over 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, lean, green-eyed and with an easy grin; Graff, short and with a squared-off boxer's nose, but unpugnacious. As environmentalists go, they speak softly and strangely: California water distribution suffers under misguided socialist precepts, they argue. What it needs is fewer bureaucrats and more capitalists. Turn water into a commodity people...