Word: cowboyism
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...Armey's overwhelmingly Republican district of affluent suburbs that sprawl like a cattle drive across Red River valley farmland, that kind of talk usually goes down well. At a town-hall meeting, Armey, dressed in his trademark dark suit and cowboy boots, got riled when an atypical constituent accused him of gutting environmental-protection laws in order to give corporate polluters a break. "I'm not gonna take a lecture that I need to compromise," Armey fired back. "I've got compromise fatigue." The voter was booed down...
...beer is considered a big event in this frat-heavy college town. The members of Hootie, hometown heroes who made it big, have decided to join the festivities unannounced. The other acts are mostly smaller, local ones with monikers that evoke the names of long shots on racing forms--Cowboy Mouth, Gracie Moon, Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that has sold 13 million copies and counting of its debut album, Cracked Rear View--suddenly shows up and starts playing at one of the dozen or so small festival stages. Says drummer...
Same face, different race. The familiar, popular pitchman for STP, Pepsi and Goody's headache powders has thrown his trademark cowboy hat into the political ring--to pitch himself for North Carolina secretary of state. Ecstatic Republicans are hoping that Petty will whiz right into the job and help other G.O.P. candidates speed past Democrats into other top posts. Petty, who successfully underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1995, is the founder of a conservative pac, a former Randolph County commissioner and a regular G.O.P. crowd pleaser. He intends to maintain his commercial plugs while running for the state office...
...little about it. He takes to drinking milk, goes to Tokyo to study at the Very Romantic English Academy (English schools in Japan really do have names like that) and falls in with various foreigners who return the compliment by idealizing him: Jane, a tattooed English teacher in red cowboy boots who mistakes intensity for intimacy; and Paul, a refined advertising agent who collects Japanese boys as if they were woodcuts...
...symbol is known as a swoosh, but it could also be interpreted as a smirk. Like the one on the face of Jones, who has countersued the N.F.L. for $750 million after the league sued him for $300 million for selling the Cowboy name to companies like Nike. Or the smirk on the face of coach Barry Switzer, who can laugh at those who called him a buffoon, now that the Cowboys are favored by two touchdowns to beat their traditional rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in Super Bowl XXX, Jan. 28 in Tempe, Ariz. Or the smirk on the face...