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...called A History of Violence, and there's plenty of that, but the movie could also be called The Mystery of Sex, for two scenes shared by Maria Bello and Viggo Mortensen. In the first, Bello, the doting Midwestern wife and mom, dons her old cheerleader togs for some playful whoopee with Mortensen, her placid, stalwart hubby. In the second, all hell breaks loose on the stairs of their home. The sex is angry, feral, more an act of fury than of love, and she might be doing it with a different, more dangerous...
...essentially it’s very conservative.” Begun as a 1997 short story in “The New Yorker” written by Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain” is inspired by a nuanced encounter Proulx had while sitting in a Midwestern bar. During a trip to Laramie, Wyo. in 1997—ironically the same town that would capture national attention only one year later, when Matthew Shepard died as a result of a gay hate crime—Proulx saw a man sitting at the bar, watching other guys play pool...
Ashley is hilarious. That is, of course, if you are referring to her Midwestern accent. But her addiction to all things dairy doesn’t keep her from doing a damn good designing job for the magazine. Plus, she always brings cheese to the production suite, which is nice, especially next year when we call Ashley at 4 a.m. to recover all the pages we lost. Hopefully she won’t go running back to PBHA...
CHICAGO Practical Midwestern men can't resist Movado's Fiero ($2,095) once they discover its sleek metal band can't be scratched...
...Midwestern Floods. Every spring the Mississippi River overflows its banks, more or less gently. This year the floods were devastating -- not just because of heavy rains but also because levees have constricted the river. Without its historic escape valves, the river burst some levees and roared over levee-less stretches. The toll: 20 million acres waterlogged, 50 lives lost and $12 billion in damage...