Word: roosters
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...dare he? Impropriety indeed! The effrontery of that little banty rooster of a demagogue from Alabama, placing a wreath on Lincoln's Tomb [Sept. 20]. "Reverently"? With that habitual sneer? That is making a mockery of everything the great Lincoln stood for. Wallace shouldn't be allowed to even stand on such hallowed ground...
Mattie enlists the aid of Rooster Cogburn, a U.S. marshal who once rode with Quantrill's border gang during the Civil War, but has since become fat and 40, one-eyed and sloppy. Soon they are joined by LaBoeuf, a straight-shooting (but not always accurate) Texas Ranger, who wants to get the same outlaw for an earlier rap and a larger reward...
...quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...
Died. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, 75, Brazil's banty rooster of communications, whose interests were as lengthy as his name; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Slick financing and a knack for marketing new ideas brought Chateaubriand an empire of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations that at the time of his death included 89 companies; he helped bring Dictator Getulio Vargas to power in 1930, later helped pull him down. The fire diminished in 1960 after he suffered a cerebral thrombosis flared again in 1962 when he scuttled Janio Quadros' political comeback...
...Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...