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Word: cowtowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat Broadway. Even the backdrops are out of sorts with one another and with the story. In one scene Frontierswoman Crawford, dressed to the nines in a Paris gown, sits down to a grand piano in a mat-red grotto lit by candelabra, and plunks .away like a cowtown Liberace while the posse thunders toward a sort of sagebrush Götterdämmerung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Action in the Afternoon (weekdays, 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV) has a permanent outdoor set: a Western cowtown built by Philadelphia's WCAU-TV on a vacant lot. But, though the TV camera gets outdoors, it has little freedom: there are no long chases on horseback or free-for-all barroom brawls in the movie horse-opera tradition. The dialogue limps even more obviously than the camera. Action in the Afternoon, still without sponsor, is an experiment that needs a lot more work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The New Shows | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

High Noon. Gary Cooper as an embattled cowtown marshal facing four desperadoes singlehanded in a topnotch western (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

FORT WORTH, Texas, known both affectionately and derisively as "Cowtown," has a civic monument which, unlike San Antonio's Alamo, Houston's Shamrock and Dallas' Cotton Bowl, can walk & talk at incredible speed. That this monument is made of perishable material causes Fort Worth no immediate concern: Amon Giles Carter, tall, straight-backed and hefty, in his 73rd year shows no signs of erosion. He walks as fast as ever and talks even faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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