Word: cowboyism
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...running for President of the U.S., not chairmanship of the bowling league. An élitist is surely someone who has a wider field of taste, interests, education and comprehension than the average person. Isn't that what the country desperately needs after eight years of the cowboy populist? John W. Gray, Toronto...
...running for President of the U.S., not chairmanship of the bowling league. An élitist is surely someone who has a wider field of taste, interests, education and comprehension than the average person. Isn't that what the country desperately needs after eight years of the cowboy populist? John W. Gray, TORONTO
...satirical insights. With its scattered structure of short pieces connected by repeated references to everyday characters with absurd imaginations, the book reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Handey’s narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat’s Cradle” (not that it’s trying to be “Cat?...
...strings. “Morning After Midnight” bears a momentary (and awkwardly satisfying) resemblance to David Hasselhoff’s experiments in recording. All this happens in less than ten minutes. The seventh track, “You Get So Lucky,” is a bluesy cowboy song that bursts into unconventional brassy orchestration. Perhaps as a concession to the “Juno” fans, “Drowning Head First” sounds almost identical to the soundtrack’s “Anyone Else But You,” though the lyrical...
...DeGraw sings about the really important things—like not wanting to be anything other than what he’s been trying to be lately—while wearing what can only be described as an “interesting” assortment of wool caps and cowboy hats. Another one of the “backronyms” for the Wu-Tang Clan is “We Usually Take All N***as’ Garments.” Someone better tell DeGraw to keep an eye on his headwear collection...