Word: plainsman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of bad star trip tabloid journalism has made all too familiar to modern audiences. The trouble for him is that the founding of the Betty Ford Clinic is over a century in the future. The trouble for us is that The Plainsman, in which Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur played these figures in accordance with the conventions of their time--as protagonists in something pretty close to a screwball comedy--is 60 years in the past. In other words Wild Bill was born too soon for professional help, and we, it seems, were born too late for the more...