Word: cowboyism
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...knew I had a shot at him when I first met him at the hotel in Washington, because he had on a pair of cowboy boots,” Hance said. “I said, ‘this guy might want to come back to Texas...
...Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia" had been rediscovered by alternative-rock bands like Primal Scream and Sonic Youth. Of his cult status he said, "Thank God for kids that love obscure things...
...home in rural Iowa, then you haven't spent a day here with Rudy Giuliani. In fact, to hear him talk, the former New York City mayor can hardly tell the two places apart. Ducking into Longhorn Saddlery and Western Wear in Fort Dodge to pick up some cowboy shirts for himself (extra large) and his designer-loving missus (small), Giuliani noted, "They had bull riding this year in Madison Square Garden." At a town-hall forum held at Northern Iowa Area Community College (NIACC), he marveled, "There's a city in New York called Nyack! Spelled differently..." Upon learning...
...months after Grease: a stupendous flop, Moment by Moment ($11 million). He had endured the first big up-down in a notably seismic career. Urban Cowboy boom, Two of a Kind bust; Staying Alive a zig, Perfect a zag. The sassy-baby Look Who's Talking was his top grosser since Grease; then he had another recession until Pulp Fiction pegged him as the cool bad guy and won him a string of hits. Another soft phase set in until this year's comedy smash Wild Hogs...
...that I attended last summer to anything I had expected to see in Brazil. From the western-style lettering to the singer with the perfect Garth Brooks accent, I could have been in Texas. But the booths served suco de cana and churrasco, and the t-shirts under the cowboy hats sported names like “Emporio Armani?...