Word: rodeos
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...cope with these days: drugs, crime, sex, class distinctions, absent parents. The last of these is not the least of these. Tex and his sober, conventionally ambitious brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father is a rodeo performer who often forgets to send money home to the boys. In teen-age fantasies, the kind of autonomy they enjoy is widely held to be ideal, and it may be that the largest purpose of the movie, faithfully based on one of S.E. Hinton's popular novels...
...Paris original, jock chic is rampant. With men and women flaunting tanned, exercised bodies, the fashion is sportswear: headbands, tank tops, jogging shorts and running shoes. In offices and at informal dinner parties, the high-casual look has become acceptable. Exercise togs appear in the windows of a Rodeo Drive boutique; and at night, on Sunset Strip, young prostitutes parade in gym shorts and leg warmers...
...those optimists who believe that stock prices and hemlines rise simultaneously, the sidewalks and store windows will provide ample reason for rejoicing this spring. From Rome's Via Veneto to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, the skirt has moved above the knee. In fact, the miniskirt is back. At Filene's department store in Boston, where one-fourth of all higher-priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season...
...Vienna, Irving studied more German, wrote Shyla and began a novel about third-rate cowboys who stage a ridiculous rodeo in New England. The young writer had little experience in that arena; he was once dragged around by a steer for more than five minutes before he was finally able to bring the animal down. But the novel got away from him and eventually he abandoned...
When his father lived in the White House, publicity-shy Steve Ford preferred to make his home on the range and his living by rodeo riding. But the silver screen beckoned a couple of years ago, and Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody...