Word: cowboying
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...casebook study in cultural osmosis-the process by which serious directors draw off the pornographers' best stuff and put it to respectable uses. I Am Curious (Yellow) (1969) seems to have started the current phase of candor. It was followed by progressively bolder films, from Midnight Cowboy (1969), with its homosexual as well as heterosexual couplings, to A Clockwork Orange (1971), with its rapes and sex à trois. Going beyond all of these, Tango proclaims the liberation of serious films from restraints on sex as unequivocally as the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde proclaimed liberation from restraints on violence...
George Allen's Washington Redskins had an easier time of it against the Dallas Cowboys. Every time Cowboy Quarterback Roger Staubach dropped back to pass, he found himself hounded by a fierce Redskin rush. By contrast, Redskin Quarterback Billy Kilmer had all the time he needed to send Receiver Charley Taylor a pair of thread-needle touchdown passes. All but smothering the Cowboy running attack, Washington rolled over Dallas...
...Adviser as Lone Cowboy...
...saying, apparently in all seriousness; of course he was quite right, but perhaps he should not have been the one to say it. In an interview that fairly bristles with the first person singular pronoun, Kissinger revealed that he loved "acting alone" in his diplomacy: "The Americans love the cowboy who comes into town all alone on his horse, and nothing else. He acts and that is enough, being in the right place at the right time, in sum a western. This romantic and surprising character suits me because being alone has always been part of my style...
...King of Marvin Gardens is a skeletal version of Five Easy Pieces robbed of its vital flesh and muscle fabric. It is a blood brother of the genre established with Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces. These films bore the double burden of avoiding Hollywood debris and finding a voice independent of more practiced European avant-gardism. And they emerged as wholly American. Now Rafelson feels it his aesthetic duty to be new again. The problem is that his basic landscape hasn't changed, and so as be remodels his methods he sacrifices sincerity. The onetime pace-setter...