Word: cowboying
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...Hmmph!" she snorts. "You can take it, cowboy. Jes' go on back to your filthy c-countess. I ain't never...
...blamed the body. Took him into town and cut off all his hair. Left his head barren as the floor of the Mojave. Whole time in the chair the boy didn't say a word. Even admired himself in the double mirror afterwards, stuck out his chin like a cowboy star. When I finished he took a piece of Bazooka Joe from the mason jar, popped it in his mouth, and stabbed me with his fishing knife. Had a right, of course. Been my father, I'd gone for the jugular...
...BEST MOMENT in Robert Altman's film version of Sam Shepard's play Fool For Love comes when the heartsick cowboy Eddie pops a quarter in a motel room Magic Fingers machine. Sprawled out on an unmade queen-size bed, dressed in faded jeans and a trailworn denim jacket, and nursing a tin of day-old Skoal and a bottle of worm-blessed Mexican tequila, Shepard rides the bed like a rundown rodeo star, and when he throws his girl May a particularly wistful smile, all the humor and pathos of Shepard's writing comes shining clean through...
Fuentes says North Americans believe people are good or bad, cowboy or Indian, communist or capitalist. This intolerance and failure to recognize the qualities of the opponent is the source of many of today's problems both within Latin America and between Latin America and the U.S., he says...
...regain majority status, move right. Out-right the right with morality/family rhetoric. But is it possible to out Republican the Republicans? Won't the Democrats simply shift the political spectrum rightward and come out looking just as far left, wimpy, and soft--a pale shadow of the cowboy--booted New Right...