Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING OFFICE BELL signs or steering onto the black prairie for a stunned hour of sleep." That's in a story called The Mud Below, and it just about nails pickup trucks and rodeo soldiers...
Beverly Hills doesn't look like a combat zone. Rodeo Drive screams money, not mayhem. But sweetie, kiss-kiss, get out your designer flak jacket, because there's a war going on in Hollywood, and Wilshire Boulevard is ground zero. Taking up a position at one end is Michael Ovitz, the former uber-agent who repped Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks before quitting for a short-lived tenure as president of Disney. Four miserable years later, he's back from exile, offering his services as a manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away...
...preparing for? Is this the "lacerating self-exposure" she told us of? And when Shionoiri gives birth to the dragons on stage while satirizing the Catholic saints she invokes, we can only guess whether she is an glimpse of the older baton-twirler. And did the embittered rodeo-rider journey though dozens of tattoo parlors to become the woman Brawley also plays in "Marks...
...play's only womanscorned is Brawley, who plays a seasoned rodeo-rider in "Rodeo." She is no ordinary woman scorned but a Western firebrand with an accent and a swagger who is furious at the capitalists who bought out her rodeo...
...TELEVISION Indiana vs. Kentucky, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. B.C. at Miami, NESN, 7:30 p.m. Sabres at Blues, ESPN2, 8 p.m. Iowa at Kansas, ESPN, 9:30 p.m. Rodeo Natl. Finals, ESPN2...