Word: corrals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tense beneath her first saddle and confined to a narrow chute, the mustang lays back her ears indignantly. Robinson, 28, tall and powerfully built, eases atop the animal, and she erupts in furious leaps. Fellow convicts pull Robinson to safety. Released into the corral, the mare kicks like a ninja assassin as cowboys in green prison garb shout and wave their Stetsons to keep her from banging into the fence. Robinson climbs on again and seconds later is bucked into the dust. Yet even a wild horse eventually tires. Another man mounts up, the mare crow-hops a bit, stiff...
...become a cowboy, a prisoner must be near the end of his term: the horse corrals are outside the prison security system, and an inmate inclined to flee need only cross an alfalfa field and a low barbed-wire fence. No one has done so yet. Corral Boss Tony Bainbridge observes, "The meanest ones seem to make the best hands. You come out here and think you're a tough guy -- we'll find out." He says, "A 900-lb. horse can move you around more than you expect...
...Delta did not have enough troubles, a monkey broke loose last week in the baggage hold of a 727 about to take off from Atlanta for Columbus. It took an hour to corral the animal, and the flight was canceled. The incident might normally have been good for a chuckle, but Delta officials are in no mood to laugh...
...cannot help but think that Nolte and company are giggling hysterically behind their iron faces. So it may just be that Extreme Prejudice is one of those rare Hollywood gems: a film taken seriously precisely because it is so awful, a kind of "Plan 9 At The O.K. Corral...
They say goodbye, and Ifan continues his walk down the path until he comes to a barbed-wire corral. There, a tan pony and a gray mule stand quietly. A heavenly silence seems to enfold the land. Ifan walks the corral, and the mule comes over to better observe this strange man. They stare at each other for several minutes, and then Ifan nods to the mule and walks on. Ifan, today, will be a solitary apparition in the dreamscape...