Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simpson learned his politics in the Cowboy State of Wyoming and after a distinguished Senate career, he continues to vocalize his opinions on the issues of the day--from the Republican Party line to the recent Clinton impeachment proceedings...
Simpson's father Milward was Wyoming's Governor from 1954 to 1958 and also served as a U.S. Senator for the Cowboy State in the mid 1960s...
...years ago, my husband and I were in the drugstore of a little town in Arizona and met a man in his 60s, shopping. He wore a cowboy hat and sported two revolvers--one for each leg. When we saw that he had a third gun slipped into the back of his jeans waistband, we thought it best to leave. You would see nothing like this here in Italy or in any other European country. Did this man really need three guns to go to the drugstore? Smokers are outcasts now in the U.S.; I would like...
These pieces are, for the most part, Wyoming grotesques. The people are hard, and the view bleak, tending toward melancholy. Brokeback Mountain is a surprise, the matter-of-fact, sorrowing, sketched life of a cowboy and his friend, married men, ordinary sorts, who over the decades never fully realize that they are gay. Real guys aren't gay, because, sex aside, they don't know how to be gay. A story called The Half-Skinned Steer is as grim as its title, and it begins, "In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool...
...nearly always) adultery, without man or woman being broken by the isolation and the struggle of survival. The most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories in the new collection, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cowboy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled man: Proulx comments, "Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that." The reader should be grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly...