Word: rodeo
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...radio is pretty sappy," he says. "It's pop with a Southern accent." Margo Timmins, 27, sings slow and deliberate. The other Cowboy Junkies play the same way. After a while, they can sound as if they're working a gig at the funeral for the sweetheart of the rodeo. This is a band grounded in silence ("The lack of sound is as compelling as sound"), suggestion and indirection. Such stylistic focus -- or, occasionally, obstinacy -- seems as if it might be limiting a record or two from now, but the band remains untroubled. "The sounds coming at you today...
...Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...
Bentsen has never been a stirring speaker, and in his 1976 try at the presidency he had difficulty rousing crowds. In one campaign stop at the rodeo - grounds in Sikeston, Mo., even Minnie Pearl from the Grand Ole Opry could not overcome the lack of excitement generated by a Bentsen appearance. Some 150 people showed up, sitting in small clumps, a family here, a family there. The desultory clapping only emphasized the vastness of the grandstand and the paucity of the crowd. The second his stump speech was over, Bentsen strode angrily back to his car and shook the Missouri...
...well during a meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
...less than half that price in Los Angeles. At the Louis Vuitton store on Manhattan's East 57th Street, where the most popular handbag sells for $295 (vs. $489 in Tokyo), nearly 50% of the customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock...