Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times mannered precision (though with "rough" bits of drawing and focus) to a much looser and Expressionist manner. His most recent work is sketchier yet, and some of its tropes seem merely silly-like Western Bathers, 1993-94, a parody of Cazanne's theme but with the figures in cowboy costume around a campfire. Maybe a climactic late style lies on the other side of this interlude, maybe not. In neither case can his work be written...
...German prison, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he stands accused of forging a Wall Street executive's name on a document used as collateral for a loan to Baring. Says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand: "A lot of people doubt that Leeson was this lone cowboy who just blew this bomb up inside, with nobody knowing what he was doing...
...Undergraduates retreat to the local pub, the Serf'n Turf, to regroup. There, Sasha Nidiot (a Cliff Clavin parody played by Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
...damage to the foremost U.S. foreign policy asset in the world: NATO. Lifting the arms embargo and mounting air strikes against the Serbs would endanger the thousands of British, French and other peacekeeping troops on the ground in Bosnia. Conveniently, the U.S. has none there, which invites Dole's cowboy notions. The French and British are justifiably apoplectic at a U.S. that is unwilling to risk a single soldier of its own, yet willing to risk the lives of NATO allies that have already lost dozens...
With regard to athletic ineptitude, Harvard is not alone, but together with the rest of the Ivies. The Yale Bowl, which once filled to watch the likes of its 1969 team of Brian Dowling of Doonesbury fame and Calvin Hill, the future Dallas Cowboy All-Pro, never fills for football games...