Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boasting a mere four students, The Mountain School is not a school at all, but a ranch. There are no teachers, no classrooms, and no tests. And all the pupils happen to be brothers...
...Drew Colfax '90 and brother Grant Colfax '87 never attended elementary or secondary school. Instead, they grew up on the Shining Moon Ranch, raised goats, did chores and studied on their own. Because the Colfax parents found the local schools unsatisfactory, they registered their ranch as a private school...
Besides paying homage to Wilson, True Stories also tips its dude-ranch ten- gallon Stetson to, among others, Glass and Meredith Monk, who choreographed the film's opening and closing tableaux. Byrne and Wilson will collaborate on The Forest, conceived as both a live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson...
...first morning of the clinic, held at the Snake River Ranch at the base of the Teton Range, a small crowd gathers to watch the colt class. One tall, black-haired cowboy mumbles that he thinks it's all bullshit. Ray's eyes sparkle. "People come to me and say, 'I'm having trouble with my horse,' and the horse is saying, 'I'm having trouble with this person,' and I believe the horse every time...
...OPENING scenes of 'night, Mother, we observe the quiet, orderly, evening rituals of Jessie Cates the night before she kills herself. As the sun sets over a small, lower-middle-class ranch house in rural America, Jessie (Sissy Spacek) gives her full attention to the monotonous, ennerving tasks of refilling the candy dishes in the living room, taking the clean towels out of the clothes dryer, cancelling the daily paper, setting the electric light timer...