Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name summons up fond and durable memories: the gum-chewing philosopher of humor, the man of homely common sense that somehow added up to uncommon wisdom. Out of it he fashioned not one, but a half-dozen careers-rodeo bronco rider, walk-on humorist (before the phrase had even been invented), Ziegfeld Follies headliner, movie star, radio commentator, newspaper columnist -a one-man galaxy of talent. He lives again on the stage of Washington, D.C.'s Ford Theatre in a gifted recreation by James Whitmore in a show appropriately titled Will Rogers' U.S.A...
...arranger is also a match for Randy the balladeer. In Cowboy, for example ("Cold gray buildings where a hill should be/Steel and concrete closin' in on me"), he evokes lonely saddles and scattered dust with craggy orchestral brush strokes that show a familiarity with Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Billy...
...debut as a rodeo rider, Monty Milhous, 19, was ignominiously tossed by a Brahma bull called Old Brindle. Earlier in the Fresno, Calif., show President Nixon's second cousin had another brief tangle-five seconds of the required eight-second ride-with a mean old mule named Khrushchev...