Word: cowboyism
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...tweed blazer and intellectual glasses, the Deep Springs alum looks about as far from a cowboy...
...Whatever you do, don’t describe us as ‘cowboy intellectuals’,” Nick L. Tsang ’07 says. “Don’t make us sound weird...
This tension comes to the fore when a rabidly xenophobic cowboy asks Borat directly in the movie if he is a Muslim or not. Caught off-guard by the question, Cohen states in character that he is not a Muslim but a Kazakh (a curious answer owing to Kazazhstan’s large Muslim population). Cohen’s Borat then tries to lighten up the moment by saying that instead of following Islam he “follows the hawk” (a flippant reference to Kazakhstan’s flag...
Cohen’s uneasy responses to this cowboy are telling, since a lot of the movie’s revelry in Muslim “backwardness” remains awkwardly below the surface. Many of the gags, in fact, are not dependent on an explicit understanding of the movie within the context of the West’s recent encounters with Islam...
...Number of calls Carmen Allen of Grandview, Mo., says she received in one hour last Tuesday night from viewers trying to vote for Lopez; her mobile-phone number is the same, with a different area code. Former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith beat Lopez for the title...