Word: rodeos
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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...
...natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...
...rough-and-rollicking stereotype of Calgary has been created, in large part, by the summer shindig known as the Calgary Stampede, a major stomp on the rodeo circuit that has been drawing revelers since 1912. Some citizens would like to shuck that image. "People think of Calgary as a town full of red-neck, capitalist cowboys driving Cadillacs," complains Rod Love, who works in the mayor's office. "We are the financial and technical capital of Western Canada." There is a stock exchange and a contingent of high-tech companies to back up that claim. There is even a mayor...