Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of them were Jack Palance--the aged, learned cowboy in Billy Crystal's popular film "City Slickers"--but these six rough riders cleaned up after horses, shot doves and, oh, played polo in the sun for eight hours...
...sofas on the unkempt lawn of what was a Muslim home in Kozarac. The former owners had been swept out at the end of May. Now, rifles at their feet, the fighters smoked cigarettes as they leafed through comics and pornographic magazines. Dragan Zamaklaar, 22, in jeans and cowboy boots, dragged heavily on a Marlboro. Then he began...
...from across the country. They travel in tightly-packed clusters around the Astrodome area, clamoring to get prime spots on the floor and scrambling to the front of the welcoming rally crowds. They are decked in suits and ties or fancy dresses--often they wear red or white plastic cowboy hats. And they come with a passion for the platform and for the cause...
...more intimate understanding of the doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline and suspended...
...lean meat. Even if ostriches don't become haute cuisine, investors are hoping the big birds achieve greater fame than a spot on Sesame Street. Ostrich eyelashes are used as paintbrush bristles, feathers for dusting and hats and coats, and the thick, tough hide is prized for everything from cowboy boots to sofas...