Word: herding
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...house backyards that Matt James renovates: drab, walled pits that are, as he says, "more prison yard than courtyard." His budget-conscious solutions treat each garden like an extension of the house, making up for limited space with careful design. You may not appreciate all his choices--say, the herd of statuary cows traipsing through a patio--but even suburbanites can learn from him about handling common problems, especially lack of sunlight. (This is a British show, after...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: Proulx was a realist, not much interested in the glories of mountain landscapes. Director Ang Lee is a romantic, and his realizations of the high country where the cowboys herd sheep and fall in love have a transformative effect on the story. He makes you believe those rough, crude guys might just possibly achieve passion and tenderness in those breathtaking locales...
Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet in the summer of 1963 when they sign on to tend a herd of sheep on the eponymous peak, which director Ang Lee locates high in ravishing Marlboro Country. Ennis is a slow-drawling man's man, a simple soul content to live out a life of low-paying odd jobs. Jack is more restless--a not very successful rodeo rider when the spirit moves him but also a man for other, upwardly mobile opportunities. He's the one who initiates their first sexual encounter, although...
...about $65 per bbl., fears abound that a further rise will hobble consumer spending and doom the global economy to recession. Yet Value Trust's latest report showed that the fund still doesn't own a single oil and gas stock because Miller, never one to run with the herd, expects oil prices to tumble...
...about $65 per bbl., fears abound that a further rise will hobble consumer spending and doom the global economy to recession. Yet Value Trust's latest report showed that the fund still doesn't own a single oil and gas stock because Miller, never one to run with the herd, expects oil prices to tumble...