Word: frontiersman
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...Calvin Klein immediately joined the rebellion, as did Donna Karan and several others. It's not unusual for Lang to be copied. He's credited with bringing us the stretchy T, rubber dresses and a whole slew of offbeat new materials. For this fall, tired of being the fabric frontiersman, he worked instead with layering--Can he bring capes back?--and unusual forms. His colors--white, black, camel and a zing of lemon--were like him: plain but hip. When: Fall collection in stores now. Spring collection to be shown in New York City on Sept...
Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman's virtues, a free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization...
...heavy in a Wayne western--rubbing his jaw and spitting dust as the Duke?s shade strides off toward the horizon, as impervious to academic analysis as he was to a bad man?s six-shooter." Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman?s virtues, a free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott...
...campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver won a Senate seat and a passel of presidential primaries when he made a coonskin cap his own symbol of country roots...
...raised by a Mohican family, has at last a context worthy of his importance as a mythic figure. This character, blending the Old World tradition of gallantry with the New World's belief in the moral supremacy of those who live in close harmony with nature, is our Ur- frontiersman, the archetype on whom everyone from William S. Hart to Clint Eastwood has fashioned his variations...