Word: cowboyism
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...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...
...twin sister. It was so powerful to sing that old folk song and be showered with love and affection and enthusiasm and encouragement by both of them. That was an event. That was my moment. From there on, when people asked, I didn't say baseball player or cowboy, I said I wanted to be an entertainer. Soon after dropping out of acting school at Carnegie Mellon and after having been busted and bailed out for marijuana possession, I wrote my first song. I was living with my grandmother in Watch Hill, R.I., working in a boatyard, trying...
...this race the Republicans hold the experience card; Earley is a former state attorney general, who warns that a Democratic governor will bring a tax hike. An old-fashioned Republican in an old-fashioned Republican state, Earley often shows up for campaign appearances wearing a business suit and cowboy boots...
...Aviation, John L. Mica (R-Fl.), who presided over the hearing, was sympathetic to Woerth’s argument. Tom Delay (R-Texas), the House majority whip, however, is more skeptical. According to The New York Times, Delay said, “I don’t want any cowboy pilots going back to fight hijackers and leaving the plane unattended.” Across the aisle, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) indicated that strengthening cockpit doors is more sensible. The New York Times reported that Gephardt said, “I don’t think...
...viola and slide guitars give the whole affair a Western tinge, like the Cowboy Junkies on a bad trip. Yet despite the unremitting, minor-key downbeatness of it all, the album never reaches the depths of claustrophobia and despair that gives Cave his unique edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics...