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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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His name is Sonny Steele. He is played by Robert Redford. He is the ultimate Rhinestone Cowboy, a five-time world's champion rodeo rider now reduced morally, if not economically, by having to hustle Ranch Breakfast, a conglomerate's cereal. He is frequently obliged to ride out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The horse is Rising Star, played by Let's Merge. It is a great race horse now retired, not to stud but to serve as a corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Anyone can guess what happens to the film's three principals once Redford galvanizes himself. Boy gets horse. Girl gets story (and also ceases to be merely a pesky observer and becomes an impassioned participant in Sonny's adventure). The populace learns the truth about the evil capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Yet rarely in recent years has this tale been told in such an agreeably inventive way. The scene in which Sonny abducts Rising Star is a case in point. The cowboy simply hops aboard the animal and clippety-clops him straight down the runway of the industrial show in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Still, the film probably works so well because of Redford. Oh, due credit to Fonda: here, in direct contrast to the development of a similar character in The China Syndrome, she moves from knowledgeability to vulnerability, and does it with the same winning grace. But Redford, making his first major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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