Word: lassoing
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...that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string," and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" hitch. Expert ropers can do it all in ten seconds or less...
Hatari! is an African western. The cowpokes (John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Red Buttons) do not herd cattle and they do not ride horses. They go bucketing over the Tanganyika plains in Jeeps and trucks to lasso giraffes, rhinos, zebras, wild buffalo and wildebeests for zoos...
...major works on the program, jointly performed by the two choruses, were di Lasso's Penitential Psalm, 'De Profundis,' Beethoven's 'Elegischer Gesang,' Op. 118, and Schubert's Mass in G Major. The worst-performed, Schubert's Mass, written at 18, suffered from an execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney...
...Profundis,' sixth of a set of seven penitential psalms, displayed the Glee Club more to advantage. Kapellmeister di Lasso began the set of psalms under commission from Duke Albert of Bavaria in 1563. He based the sixth psalm on a cantus firmus (chant melody) which recurs in each movement of the piece. The Radcliffe Society had consistent trouble making its entrances, but the chorus, though occasionally bottom-heavy, preserved the viscous fluidity of Lasso's style. The men's chorus, by the way, has fine basses, and exploits them well; but sometimes instead of stabilizing they sink the ship...
...Viva Villa, The Gay Desperado and a score of other Hollywood mellers, the land-rich scion of a long line of California Spanish dons (including an early Governor) who became an actor by choice, not necessity, was credited with persuading Fellow Vaudevillian Will Rogers to spice his previously silent lasso routine with Oklahoma patter; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...