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...wrangler is a nobody on a horse . . . with bad teeth, broken bones, a double hernia and lice." The self-description sits James Cagney, the bad man of the title, like Cagney sits a horse. The actor is now 52, but what a hoss-bustin', man-killin', skirt-rippin', jug-totin' buckaroo he can still believably pretend to be. He runs horses on his range, hangs rustlers from his trees, and keeps the home fires burning with a plenty hot number (Irene Papas) who smokes wicked little black cigars between the acts. "I want you feisty!" Cagney...
...Russell knew what he could do and had a master's pride in his talent. Standing before a display of modern art, he once said: "I can't savvy the stuff. It may be art, but it's over my head. I may paint a bum hoss, but people who know what a hoss looks like will know I tried to paint a hoss...
...story begins with a young deputy sheriff who is sent out to herd an old hoss-wrangler and his strays through the wheat country and into open territory. On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love. He chews over old times and old ways in dozens of small passages of talk with the oldtimer, and with himself. He also takes a deep breath of the wilderness around him, and the reader breathes it with...
...mommy, look at the t'ree hoss-hoss," a little boy said, pulling a wire whch guarded the Nativity Scene on the Boston Common. "No, Jimmy, for the last time--they're camels bringing Wise men to Jesus." "No, mommy, they isn't. T'ree hoss-hoss, hoss-hoss," he wailed, tugging at the wire...
When it was over, Old Artilleryman Truman made straight for a 75-mm. howitzer, the one-hoss shay of the ordnance on display. He patted it lovingly, sternly told photographers who had snapped him peering down the barrel of a rifle a short while before that he would not pose looking down this barrel. "You don't look down the barrel of a cannon," said he, "you might get your head shot...