John Wayne was more than an actor; he was a force around which films
were made,
symbolized what Americans thought of themselves and what they aspired
to

addiction,
to sucking from the bleeding teat of government handouts. ...like their
John Wayne and yes, he had piles, big time

It was an addiction that stayed with me from the late 1940’s to the early
1970’s.... I loved the old westerns with Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Roy
Rogers
and tasty romantic blarney about an Irish American ex-boxer (John
Wayne).

We all know the name, John Wayne, and few of us can hear the name
without conjuring up a tall cowboy with a dusty hat and a gentle smile.

He was meaner than a side-winder if someone sat on his hat,

write paeans to John Wayne's memory...we're engaged in a collective case
of denial.

American Hollywood hero John Wayne once declared, "If everything isn't
black... casualties there continues to mount and analogies with Vietnam
grow. ...John Wayne - Nickname for the chocolate bars in the C-rations
pack.

"Cultural Resistance, John Wayne's Teeth, and the Politics of American ...

Instead of Arjuna in a chariot we are given John Wayne in a sari

and relationships among groups of women in American history from 1920
to the
present. ... surveying the life and historical significance of John Wayne

Jason Pickavance is an English instructor at Salt Lake Community College and blogs as Middlebrow. "'John Wayne Addiction Engine' is a L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poem composed by Middlebrow with the help of Google Poetry. It represents an exploration of the cultural topography of John Wayne."