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...brothers is impossible to say, since they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another extended family at the O.K. Corral. The exact nature of the quarrel between the Earps and Ike Clanton's crowd is never satisfactorily explained. Like almost everything else in this fragmented and ambiguous movie, it just sort of happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Shoot-Out At the Zz | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...fedgrain alcohol and molested by a horde of rich, WASPy field hockey players. I arrived at the Bee with my nicest Brooks Brothers tie and my biggest lacrosse stick. But these women final clubs are really going to have to learn something about good hostessing if they want to corral in the studs, as my less-than-seductive reception on the steps of the Bee house illustrates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Horror, the Horror | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...most recent attempt to redistrict the state of Louisiana, several of the eight districts wiggled and wobbled, extending amoeba-like pseudopods in all directions in attempts to corral voters. Of course, these voters had to meet certain demographic characteristics. One district in the central part of the state wandered in every compass direction and, even worse, wasn't even contiguous. In fairness, Texas, North Carolina and Massachusetts had similarly strange boundaries...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: The Crucial Maps | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...Prime Minister, he can call new elections. He can also select his government in sole consultation with the Prime Minister. That makes it unlikely that Yeltsin will offer a post to anyone in Zhirinovsky's camp. If Yeltsin doesn't like a piece of legislation, Deputies will have to corral a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override his veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Reason to Cheer | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...groundskeepers then load the leaves onto trucks, which transport the waste first to a new waste corral and eventually to their treatment destination...

Author: By Shine MAY Hung, | Title: Harvard Recycles Its Leaves | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

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