Word: cowboyism
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...have winced more than once upon hearing President Bush's cowboy-like rhetoric, but the phrase "axis of evil" had me sitting bolt upright in my chair, stunned, as I listened to his State of the Union speech linking Iran, Iraq and North Korea as dangerous regimes [NATION, Feb. 11]. Is Bush nuts? It's one thing to go after the Sept. 11 terrorists and their ideological kin, but I am not willing to be part of the war he seems to be envisioning. This type of inflammatory rhetoric is the kind of stuff one would expect from Third World...
...Jiang, in the marketplace for a payoff from the U.S. to symbolize the new relationship, specifically wants to slap a cowboy hat on his greased-back hair and mosey down to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. The prospect has the U.S. State Department in fits. Russian leader Vladimir Putin made the trip, but only after Bush famously took measure of Putin's soul and called him a man he could trust. Yet Putin is the elected leader of a newly democratic nation. Jiang, for all his cooperation, presides over a communist country that has thousands of political prisoners. "Crawford...
...chummy note on his 55th birthday in 1997 ("Wow! That is really old," Bush wrote. "It's a good thing your wife is so young and beautiful"). But last week in Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended to enjoy better access to Bush than he really had. "Lay reminds me of one of those boys who shoots in the sky and claims he hit everything that falls," says Mark Stiles, a Democrat and former state legislator who was close...
...ultimately stayed there because her music has remained interesting and memorable. “Like a Virgin” might not work so well if Madonna were to release it today, but it’s ludicrous to argue that her success is due to a cone bra, cowboy hat or kimono...
...questioners finally got someone to talk about the bad guys - William Powers, who released the weekend report that had Tauzin and co. dreaming of perp walks through the streets of Houston. But Powers - the dean of the University of Texas law school who comes off a bit like a cowboy David Boies - had little to say that he hadn't written already, which was more or less what the Wall Street Journal had been reporting all month...