Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coop (Cliff Robertson) is a rodeo rider who has spent the better part of a decade in stir, serving his time while winning points for the prison rodeo team. Now that he is outside again, he finds that things have changed. He returns home to discover both the old place and his old Ma (Geraldine Page) have suffered something of a decline. Hippies are abroad in the land-even in Texas. Top hands fly to rodeos in private planes and talk about their brokers...
...group of 15 students called the Bijou Singers from Rider College in New Jersey had been sitting attentively on an elevated platform at the back of the stage, behind the piano. As Yevtushenko bellowed the unballasted "Pitching and Rolling," the angelic choir, clad in bell bottoms, backed him up with seastorm voices. They took to hooting and whistling while Yevtushenko writhed in the fog of 20th Century pain, a favorite theme of his. Then the chorus began to chant "push-and-shout, push-and-shout, zig-zag, zig-zag" and they howled an assortment of animal groans. This was done...
...recent changes in world monetary and trade policies meant that "we stand today at a turning point in the history of our country-and the history of our planet." He still falls into clicheé. "Surveying the certainty of rapid change," he declared, "we can be like a fallen rider caught in the stirrups-or we can sit high in the saddle, the masters of change, directing it in a course that we choose...
...CUTS. Passage of the tax-reduction bill-a keystone of Phase II-was anticlimactic, since the major obstacle had been removed two weeks ago. In its original form, the bill contained a Democratic-sponsored rider to allow each taxpayer to check off $1 of his taxes for a presidential campaign fund, thus creating a $20 million reservoir for each party's candidate next year. But when the President threatened to veto the bill, the Democrats backed down. As signed by the President last week, the law will reinstate the 7% tax credit for industrial investment on equipment, raise...
...rider becomes the penitent, shaves his head and commits himself to the task of digging a tunnel out of the cave. Because he is bigger and stronger than all the prisoners, he can climb out of the cave. With the dwarf women who took care of him on his back, he goes into the town to collect money by begging for supplies to dig the tunnel. The town is an exaggerated stereotype of a Hollywood Western town; boorish, fat old women in 1890's dresses, who ooh and aah as they watch two men kill each other; black slaves branded...