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...chorus's carefree inventiveness typifies what one expects, and happily gleans, from an evening of House light opera, its blaze of color reflecting the elixir's goodnatured powers of enchantment. The beholder's eye rejoices in a visual revue with snatches of symphonic pretension, a waltz of cowboy hats and ruffled decolletage and flame-red dime-store feather boas, all swirling away gaily beneath the Lowell House chandcliers...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Under the Chandeliers | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

...jeeps. Reagan will also dispatch an extra 34 military advisers from the Pentagon to join the 25 "training experts" already there. If you think the Salvadorean people feel the heat of American military operations now, try to imagine what happens if one of our military advisers get shot. With cowboy Reagan in the White House and General Haig at State, the prospect that such an incident may be used to justify an American intervention is unsettling...

Author: By Jamie Raskin, | Title: Financing El Salvador's Reign of Terror | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

...techno-cowboy's metaphor that borders on the kinky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...press conference yesterday, Travolta said that the award "could only help" his chances for an Academy Award this year as best actor in "Urban Cowboy...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavazos, | Title: Travolta Arrives in Cambridge, Accepts Hasty Pudding Honor | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...alleged leader of the heist, Harold James Smith, is a strapping 6 ft. 2 in. and sports a bushy beard usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wells Fargo Stickup | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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