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...struggle for the kid's soul largely takes place in Alonzo's "office," a 1978 Monte Carlo low-rider, where he offers beer and pot and the promise of promotion, fame and ill-gotten gains. These alternate with threats of death and dishonor if Jake refuses to go along...
Discussing the limitations of age is passe to Short and her rodeo colleagues. "People tell me to quit all the time," says Mario Ciucci, 58, a bareback rider, "but I feel as good as I did at 35." Still, it's impossible to ignore the reality that a group of grandparents are dodging bull horns and bronco hooves--especially since the animals make no allowances for age. Injuries are guaranteed. In Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe...
...characters, but not when they are introduced and immediately abandoned. Furthermore, some scenes are completely unnecessary. Dahl did not view his film so much as a teen thriller than as part of the great tradition of “road movies,” including films likeEasy Rider and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (similarly about a crazy, road raging trucker). However, this movie’s plot does not allow that distinction to be made. It carries all the gimmicks of the recent horror films, which by now bring groans of boredom as opposed to thrills and chills...
Still, even the EPA lauds Kennecott's stewardship in the valley. "That particular mine is at the forefront of the industry. Having a booming metropolis has forced Kennecott to deal appropriately at that site," says Dan Randolph, the EPA's Southwest-circuit rider...
High up on his camel, Adam Mahamoudane surveys the scene below him. The dry, sandy riverbed is a sea of color. Some 60 camels mill about, stirring up the dust and leaving apple-shaped footprints in the sand, while riders rest on their haunches in the shade of acacia trees. Most of the men - Tuareg nomads from the small oasis town of Timia in the West African nation of Niger - wear loose fitting, black trousers, with yellow or white edging around the hem. Over the trousers hangs a cotton robe held at the waist by a colorful belt. Many wear...