Word: horseback
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...rodeo's five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts...
Through this frail plot, described as "a fairy tale for adults," Fellini parades a gallery of grotesques both sacred and profane: whores, prophets, shrouded nuns, epicene cultists, damned maidens ablaze, sundry vile bodies and Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film's conceits are breathtaking to behold, from the gauzy blue-grey magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from...
Soon they are all allegory-bound on horseback-killing each other, losing their horses and themselves, exchanging long looks. "I have always had it in my mind to do a silent picture," says Director Bourguignon, "and this one is two-thirds silent. The last reel is practically without dialogue...
...factory that turns out to be full of pot-smoking beatniks and is inexplicably attacked by the British army (the adults they meet are all bad). Before they run out of location shots, Dave and Barbara have also taken a walk in the snow on a deserted road, gone horseback-riding at an all-but-deserted dude ranch. Talked Things Over in a deserted bus, and dashed across some deserted sand dunes, only to be run to earth by the evil adman in a deserted summer resort. It all lurches to a halt with Model Ferris on her way back...
...richly rustic Jenny Lake Lodge ($40 a day double, with two meals) to a trailer park with water, sewer and electrical connections ($2.25 a day). After-dark activity is limited, but a square dance, movie or concert generally can be found. During the day there is fishing, boating, horseback riding and nature hikes conducted by park rangers, but a favorite pastime of almost everybody is simply sitting and staring in disbelief at the spectacular, mica-strewn Teton Range, known to the Indians as "the Big Shining Mountains," and often roguishly described by airline stewardesses as "the Sweater Girl Mountains...