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Married. Henry Luce III, 50, director of corporate planning for Time Inc. and president of the Henry Luce Foundation, and Mrs. Nancy Bryan Cassiday, 45, daughter of a Montana rancher; he for the third time, she for the second; in the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary, of which Luce is a trustee...
...aspire to the free life enjoyed by his Indian ancestors. They begin the film as prankish, thoughtless one-cow-at-a-time rustlers. They end it in Rancho Deluxe-a prison camp-after they fail to pull off a major cattle heist. Their nemesis is the biggest, most blustering rancher in Montana (Clifton James); his name is Brown. Their undoing is an ancient range detective (Slim Pickens) who is smart enough to stand still and wait for the miscreants to make a mistake, while everyone else is running off in all directions to look for them. The detective...
...Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like Charlene Dallas) exploited as bit players in the dreamers' lives...
...down in San Diego by a gang of Anglos opposed to the town's incorporation under Chicano control. Ethnic conflict reached a high pitch. Alone among the area's "Americans" to champion the Mexicans' po sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured, and bail money was available to miscreants. In return, Parr's political vassals...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...