Word: roughnecking
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...says he knows that such goodwill can help secure the rig's safety from possible attack. Insurgents last year launched more than 200 attacks on Iraq's oil facilities, and have made more than 30 already this year. But Khadir, who earns $500 a month as a oil-rig roughneck - in a village of poor sheep farmers - says an attack against DNO would surely fail. "Everyone in the village would protect the company, even the kids, because this oil is our future," he says. And while DNO waits for the oil to flow, it seems likely that Tawke's children...
...same way with Audiard's characters. It's probably safe to say that there has never been a hood who aspired to the concert stage. But the child of a roughneck father and an elegant mother who has lived an ambivalent, ultimately untriumphant life as a result is not unfamiliar. Out of a borrowed and preposterous premise, Audiard has fashioned a film that is more haunting--and more compellingly watchable--than it has any right...
...Cincinnati Kid) and in Faye Dunaway's arms (The Thomas Crown Affair), but the actor's wariness never failed him or failed to attract an audience. This DVD package and another, The Essential Steve McQueen Collection, are out this month: a 10-film fest honoring the silk-smooth roughneck, the Crown Prince of Cool...
That Padgett made it to the city council is a measure of the state's devotion to the "Don't ask, don't tell" orthodoxy. After he started seeing men in Wyoming, Padgett discovered what many other lesbians and gays here already knew: if you stay out of roughneck bars like the Fireside (where Shepard met his killers), and if you avoid propositioning heterosexuals, you'll be fine, because straight Wyomingites will keep their end of the bargain--they won't ask. "Wyoming is a state of fences," says Bob Hooker, 43, a Wyoming AIDS activist who was born...
...client, sometimes three. "If they say no, I say no." But then sometimes resentful johns hit her. It's pay-and-go until she has pocketed 1,000 or 1,500 Zimbabwe dollars and can go home--with more cash than her impoverished neighbors ever see in their roughneck shantytown, flush enough to buy a TV and fleece jammies for her girls and meat for their supper...