Word: cowboyism
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...nation of cultural philistines? Critics bemoaning the dearth of interest in cultural fare (book sales are shrinking along with art-house film audiences) point to a brutal 1980 military coup as the start of this malaise. The generals ushered in an era of economic liberalization and anything-goes cowboy capitalism that rapidly transformed the country into a consumerist McHeaven. Turgut Ozal, who served as Prime Minister from 1983 to 1989 and as President from 1989 to 1993, famously declared that his dream was for Turkey to become "a little America." And he wasn't talking about liberty. Today, Turkey...
...were utterly shut out. So was Clint Eastwood's Changeling, though the Hollywood icon, who turns 78 on Saturday, received a "Special Prize of the 61st" - essentially a we're-glad-you're-still-around pat on the back. That means that, over the past 24 festivals, the old cowboy has brought five films to Cannes, and none has taken a competition prize. Another of these life-achievement citations went to Catherine Deneuve, 64, who starred in the French drama A Christmas Tale. She was there; Clint wasn...
...Cannes - not as special screenings, where he has nothing to lose, but in the ego-bruising competition for the top prize - and the first four times (with Pale Rider, Bird, White Hunter Black Heart and Mystic River he's gone home empty-handed. It's not that the old cowboy needs another trophy: he's twice won Oscars for best director and best picture, with Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. Perhaps the businessman in him knows that his movies will get more free publicity when he stands on the Grand Palais steps, and his image is broadcast around the world...
...chairmanship of the bowling league. An élitist is surely someone who has an appreciably wider field of taste, interests, education and comprehension than the average person. Like most of our great Presidents. Isn't that what the country desperately needs after eight years of the cowboy populist? John W. Gray, Toronto...
...Ickes has done so much over the past 30 years to make this moment possible. Son of an irascible Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cabinet member (whose nickname was the Old Curmudgeon), the younger Ickes was raised in the Washington bubble of his time--but he migrated West, worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Northern California and harbored little interest in the kind of work done by his father, who died when the boy was 12. That changed in the summer of 1964, after graduating from college, when Ickes headed south to work for the civil rights movement. The next...