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...bewildering for its rather sudden advent as its overt hostility. The two know to keep it hush hush: “It’s nobody’s business but ours,” says Jack. When the summer ends, the two go home: Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fiancée in Wyoming. Both get married and have children. But the separation becomes unbearable, and they organize regular “fishing trips” on Brokeback to again stoke the fires from that first journey.Yet, the film’s much touted...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Journey to 'Brokeback' | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Tender Cowpoke Love Story | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Working the Business Suit | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsafe Harbor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...you’re up for a rodeo...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radioactive | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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