Word: cowboyism
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...Then the Dallas Morning News made fun of Gore's cowboy boots...
...recognize the moment; we have all, at one time or another, felt the shock and disbelief of the decisive stroke that alters everything. It strikes the famous and the obscure impartially. I knew an aged cowboy in West Texas, with the unlikely name of Cecil, who was driving down a highway one morning and took his eyes off the road in order to reach for his tobacco pouch, and veered fatally into the path of an eighteen-wheeler...
...Veracruz, wiping beads of sweat off his mustache with a bandanna he keeps stuffed in the back pocket of his jeans. Suddenly, he's mobbed like a Mexican rock star, one of those angry norteno balladeers who wail about shame and betrayal. At 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, Fox, the presidential candidate of the conservative National Action Party (P.A.N.), towers above everybody, even his bodyguards. He moves toward a blue Suburban, through a press of sweating, grinning fans shouting, "Vi-cen-te, Vi-cen-te!" He clasps hands with a barefoot Indian in baggy white cottons, autographs...
Krebs' parents say their son has always been a performer. They had a closet full of costumes that he played with when he was young. His favorite character was a sort of cowboy; he called him "gum-fighter-stick...
They probably sold the idea with the pitch meeting's first phrase: "Jackie Chan in the Old West." Surely the deal was sealed when they mentioned his character's name: Chon Wang. It may be, as someone in the film says, a terrible name for a cowboy, but soften that g, and it sounds a lot like that of a certain massive movie star who won immortality playing Western heroes...