The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

In 1975, Ms. Proulx became a journalist, after not finding a suitable teaching postion.  And we are glad she did start writing, turning out fiction as well as journalistic pieces.

[Fran]

Ennis to Alma in bed:  "If you don't want no more of my kids, I'll be happy to leave you alone."

[Lumière]

Alma was laundering garments in the kitchen sink when Ennis came in, kissed her on the cheek and asked: "How're the girls doin'?".

[Toast]

Mrs. Twist had preserved Jack's bedroom like a museum ...
 "the narrow boy's bed against the wall, an ink-stained desk and wooden chair, a b.b. gun in a hand-whittled rack over the bed."
[novella]

[Fran]

Proulx wrote:

"Ennis, high-arched nose and narrow face, was scruffy and a little cave-chested, balanced a small torso on long, caliper legs...."

[memento]

Monroe must have been either obtuse or unconscious not to have reacted to the quarrel between Alma and Ennis is the next room.

=aside=
Pairs skating can  be engrossing....
Fran

[Toast]

ENNIS'S co-worker (on asphalt job) , TIMMY, a fat, bespectacled, annoyingly loquacious middle-aged man with a bad case of plumber's butt, works alongside him. Talks incessantly.

oh [screenplay - February 1, 2003]

[Fran]

Jack was quaking down to his cowboy boots as he tried to make small talk with Alma.

[DeeDee]

Jack told Ennis he had a thing going with the wife of a rancher down in Childress.

[memento]

The passage of time is denoted in Ennis and Jack by their ever-lengthening sideburns .