Word: cowboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint against Susan, Jil, whose good fight had done her movie career no harm, purred testily: "I don't want this bad publicity. But why should I sit back and let this woman clobber me?" Before he galloped off to a hideout, Cowboy Barry drawled fair-and-square: "Look, I'm in the middle of this...
...AMERICAN COWBOY (232 pp.)-Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choafe Jr. -University of Oklahoma Press...
...spite of its age and the fact that its 145-minute mass is sometimes dragging, Oklahoma! hollers itself home as a handsome piece of entertainment. The plot, to begin with, is just about perfect for a musical: cowboy loves farmgirl, sinister farmhand menaces farmgirl, cowboy kills farmhand, cowboy weds farmgirl, everybody rides into sunset. It is as simple and innocent as a birthday cake, in which the songs are set as naturally as candles-and dazzling good songs they still...
...vegetable soup, brought it to the hospital for a lunch. Physicians permitted the addition of the first personal item to the hospital room since the President entered it. Up on a bureau, where Ike could see it, went a color picture of grandson David Eisenhower, wearing a black cowboy hat and holding a fishing...
...reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by playing the script as farce...