Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Some 75 broncobusters compete for $57,000 prize money in the national rodeo championships in Dallas...
...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The country's best cowboys compete-in everything from roping to bronco-busting-for $70,000 in prize money at the California Rodeo...
Unfortunately, Miller tends to abuse his symbolism, and almost always clogs fine scenes with impassioned hyperbole or artless redundacy. Only one short episode escapes exaggeration: Montgomery Clift, a battered rodeo rider, telephoning his mother to say that he is alive and well. In contrast to this, there is the climactic scene, where Gable wrestles a stallion to the ground, proves his human strength, then cuts the animal loose. Here, Miss Monroe murmurs stupidly to the horse, "Go home," thus burlesquing the very impact that Miller had achieved...
...meet in Reno, where she has spent six weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death as a part of life-in effect, to accept life. All four of them drive off to the mountains to rope some wild mustangs...
...Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.).. First of a 13-part series covering offbeat sports. Today: the finals of a national rodeo, from Dallas...