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...Dallas Cowboy Philosopher Duane Thomas, whose 1971 wisdom surpassed understanding
Afterward, Maura Moynihan, in her leather miniskirt and cowboy boots, scrambles straightway to the top of an 8-ft.-high pedestal and works off her postperformance nervous energy by go-go dancing. Cornelia, all smiles, steps off the stage to be kissed and congratulated by her mother and brother, by Roberto, by Fashion Photographer Francesco Scavullo, by one of her agents and by half a dozen trim, middle-aged men in business suits who have been buzzing around...
Melody smelody. The fact is that boredom is going to be a major factor in this marathon. How do you make a fellow presidential and yet exciting? Gary Hart lets his brown cowboy boots stick out from under his gray pinstripes, a hint of the hombre. John Glenn took an F-16 fighter up for a spin over Texas, and in California "landed" the space shuttle in a simulator, both stunts tailored for the evening news. But boots and jets will not keep the audience interested for two more years. Hart is rehearsing some showstoppers. In Los Angeles the other...
...introduction to this sagebrush valedictory, Novelist Thomas McGuane catalogues the hallmarks of the fading West: "The dead windmills lost behind the high wire of a missile range, the stove-up old cowboy at the unemployment of fice, the interstate that plunges through the homesteads . . ." Threatened by land development and automated meat production, folks less durable than cowpunchers would have ridden into the sunset long ago. Yet they hang on, as evidenced by Vanishing Breed (New York Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West...
...movie's best scene occurs when Nolte and Murphy go into a country boy bar, full of rednecks in cowboy hats. "These are my kind of people," chuckles Nolte, "they sure as hell don't like you." Murphy takes the remark as a dare, and after borrowing Nolte's badge, breaks the big mirror behind the bartender. The room falls quiet. "Alright now, listen up!" yells Murphy. "I don't like white people...