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SEE, I guess this Sam Shepard fella wants us all t' think he's th' prototype rugged Westerner, th' last cowboy. That's why he's in all those movies, playin' th' big steer with th' bad teeth. N' that's why he writes plays like Curse of the Starving...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

What was the catch? Did he want someone to play a rapist, a child molester or a drooling maniac? No. Those would have been easy parts to fill. Wheeler wanted a rugged star to play a college track coach who happens to be gay. And despite all the gains made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Reluctance to Play | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

First settled in the 1860s, by pioneers crossing the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, the county today reflects a modern version of that rugged independence. "This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Place That Picks Winners | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Oscar, for openers, is the sole surviving child of a widower named Theophilus Hopkins, a naturalist renowned for his studies along the rugged English coast of Devon and a fire-breathing evangelical preacher. The lad eventually tastes a Christmas pudding, strictly forbidden by his father's severe regimen, is punished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Joys of Glass and Gambling OSCAR AND LUCINDA | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Well, no, not quite yet. The nervous callers apparently mistook the gentler European honeybees for the aggressive killer bees, which U.S. officials say have proceeded no farther northward than central Mexico. But the Texans' growing unease is understandable: unless the bees are headed off or at least slowed down, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rising Unease about Killer Bees | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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