Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7872938 times)

Offline Toast

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"T" is tottery
« Reply #14140 on: July 19, 2007, 09:44:40 pm »
INT: DEL MAR TRAILER HOUSE: AFTERNOON: CONTINUOUS:

ALMA JR. sits at a small, tottery Formica table. ENNIS stands and pours her a cup of coffee from a stained Mr. Coffee. WE HEAR wind blowing, rattling the trailer house. ALMA JR. looks around the nearly-empty trailer, an homage to plains life minimalism: a TV sits on a plastic milk crate in front of a battered recliner, the only other furniture besides the chipped Formica table, two wobbly chairs, and a fridge and tiny stove.     [2003 screenplay]

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"U" is uncluttered
« Reply #14141 on: July 20, 2007, 12:09:11 am »
Compared to the del Mar residence, the Twist residence was uncluttered.



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"V" is vulgarly
« Reply #14142 on: July 20, 2007, 01:13:07 am »
During Thanksgiving dinner at the Twist house, Jack startled the self-appointed stud duck into submission by speaking vulgarly to him:

"Now you sit down, you old son of a bitch!  This is my house!  This is my child!  And you're my guest!  So sit the hell down, or I'll knock your ignorant ass into next week...."
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"W" is wall-mounted
« Reply #14143 on: July 20, 2007, 01:33:20 am »
Over the years, Ennis had more than one wall-mounted mountain painting in his abodes.

« Last Edit: July 26, 2007, 12:45:18 am by Fran »

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"X" is xoterically
« Reply #14144 on: July 20, 2007, 07:06:57 am »
Ennis's "nearly empty trailer, an homage to plains-life minimalism" is more xoterically suited for the life-style of a divorced/bachelor cowboy, living on the edges of society, than the "fairly luxurious" maximalism of Lureen's Childress townhouse.

def - Comprehensible to or suited to the public; popular.
« Last Edit: July 20, 2007, 07:19:22 am by Toast »

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Round 540!!!
« Reply #14145 on: July 20, 2007, 09:11:53 am »
Round 540!!
They moved to a small apartment in Riverton, up over a laundry



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"A" is adjoining
« Reply #14146 on: July 20, 2007, 09:20:21 am »
The Twist residence had adjoining dining and living rooms.


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"B" is blank-eyed
« Reply #14147 on: July 20, 2007, 09:22:31 am »
The road to Lightning Flat went through desolate country past a dozen abandoned ranches distributed over the plain at eight- and ten-mile intervals, houses sitting blank-eyed in the weeds, corral fences down.  The mailbox read John C. Twist.  The ranch was a meagre little place, leafy spurge taking over.  The stock was too far distant for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies.  A porch stretched across the front of the tiny brown stucco house, four rooms, two down, two up.

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"C" is condition
« Reply #14148 on: July 20, 2007, 09:56:49 am »
The road to Lightning Flat went through desolate country past a dozen abandoned ranches distributed over the plain at eight- and ten-mile intervals, houses sitting blank-eyed in the weeds, corral fences down.  The mailbox read John C. Twist.  The ranch was a meagre little place, leafy spurge taking over.  The stock was too far distant for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies.  A porch stretched across the front of the tiny brown stucco house, four rooms, two down, two up.

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"D" is dwelled
« Reply #14149 on: July 20, 2007, 09:58:43 am »
Jack dwelled in a ritzy town in Texas but he dwelled upon his "fishing trips" in Wyoming.
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