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Soon after the hilarious Douglas Show sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world...
...Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless. Only a year ago, many of the new spots were disco clubs, whose stylized allure has faded fast in some locales. Now. decked out with steer horns, long bars, and waitresses in Stetsons and hot jeans, they have struck a bonanza...
...macho romance and derringer-do, the image of cowboy as hero and cowgirl as valiant pardner. Several hundred western-style watering holes feature bucking mechanical bulls on which patrons of both sexes risk serious damage to body and ego (see box). A spot called Outlaws, formerly a mud-wrestling disco outside Chicago, provides roisterers (for $2 a pair) with Harrington & Richardson .22-cal. western-style revolvers and nine blank rounds for mock shootouts. At some places, mostly for atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES. For down-the-hatch topers, Chicago's Rodeo offers...
...emulate Gilley's Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold and San Antone Rose, are in affluent residential areas and cater to Gucci gauchos. A Houston-based conglomerate, McFaddin-Kendrick, has launched a national chain of 40 western barns that mix country music with disco. In April a Fort Worth entrepreneur plans to open a three-acre C&W supersaloon described as the world's largest nightclub. It will be called Billy Bob's Texas and have 42 bar stations on four levels, two 7,000-sq.-ft. dance floors, and ten live bulls...
...admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread the word) and books some of the most popular country-rock acts in the area, McNasty's according to Owner Rich Thomas, 38 is "a workingman's nightclub." Or as Singer-Model Elizabeth Harrison, 21 puts it: "Disco turns me off because the people are really plastic. When you're here, you feel like everybody knows you. It's really dynamite. There's no competition. You want to dance, you do it. You want to get drunk to the gills...