Word: rodeos
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...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 in the act itself he plays the passive role while Ennis is the aggressor. On the other hand (and that ambiguity...
...includes a pink and green “double tie,” a kimono tie, and a bold metallic mesh tie. In the last year, the local overachiever has gone national. His line of ties and women’s T-shirts premiered in Los Angeles, selling on Rodeo Drive. He now takes business advice from Donald Trump and appears everywhere from CNN to Nylon magazine. But Shemtov remains humble and wants to keep his options open; he’s still considering jobs in everything from business to television to politics. “I came to Harvard...
...this magnificent rodeo, starring the Army Corps of Engineers as the wranglers of an untamed river, has been plagued from the start by unintended consequences. To prevent catastrophic floods like the 1927 disaster that left 700,000 people homeless from Illinois to Louisiana, the Corps leveed and streamlined the Mississippi. That effort turned the meandering, porous waterway into the world's largest high-pressure hose, shooting sediment and nutrients off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Starved of silt and undermined by oil-drilling operations, the delta has been sinking at the same time global warming has caused...
...you’re up for a rodeo...
...time, there were just a few things Matt and Andrew didn’t know about Toby Keith. They did not know that before he turned to music, he worked as a rodeo hand. They did not know that he once bragged that before him, “there was zero attitude in country music.” And they did not know that he was the author of the 2001 “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.” In that song, Keith promised retribution to the terrorists responsible for the “mighty...