Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 6283021 times)

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"J" is journalist
« Reply #1880 on: May 15, 2006, 05:27:53 pm »

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.

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"K" is kids
« Reply #1881 on: May 15, 2006, 05:40:49 pm »
Ennis to Alma in bed:  "If you don't want no more of my kids, I'll be happy to leave you alone."

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"L" is laundering
« Reply #1882 on: May 15, 2006, 05:51:15 pm »
Alma was laundering garments in the kitchen sink when Ennis came in, kissed her on the cheek and asked: "How're the girls doin'?".


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"M" is museum
« Reply #1883 on: May 15, 2006, 05:54:27 pm »

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]
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"N" is narrow
« Reply #1884 on: May 15, 2006, 06:33:52 pm »
Proulx wrote:

"Ennis, high-arched nose and narrow face, was scruffy and a little cave-chested, balanced a small torso on long, caliper legs...."
« Last Edit: May 15, 2006, 06:39:07 pm by Fran-E »

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"O" is obtuse
« Reply #1885 on: May 15, 2006, 07:30:07 pm »
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
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"P" is plumber's
« Reply #1886 on: May 15, 2006, 07:34:05 pm »

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]


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"Q" is quaking
« Reply #1887 on: May 15, 2006, 07:49:45 pm »
Jack was quaking down to his cowboy boots as he tried to make small talk with Alma.

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"R" is rancher
« Reply #1888 on: May 15, 2006, 08:12:54 pm »
Jack told Ennis he had a thing going with the wife of a rancher down in Childress.
In America sex is an obsession.  In other parts of the world it is a fact.

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"S" is sideburns
« Reply #1889 on: May 15, 2006, 08:13:49 pm »
The passage of time is denoted in Ennis and Jack by their ever-lengthening sideburns .
« Last Edit: May 15, 2006, 08:21:10 pm by Memento »