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

[dot-matrix]

Initially, Jack found Lureen to be an interesting mix of aplomb, aggressiveness and audacity.


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think I spent too much time watching Sesame Street with my niece  

[Meryl]

Annie Proulx could be termed a bluestocking by some, but she is certainly no prude, as her stories illustrate.

def: a woman with intellectual interests

[Fran]

Alma's "resentment opened out a little every year:  the embrace she had glimpsed, Ennis's fishing trips once or twice a year with Jack Twist and never a vacation with her and the girls, his disinclination to step out and have any fun, his yearning for low paid, long-houred ranch work, his propensity to roll to the wall and sleep as soon as he hit the bed, his failure to look for a decent permanent job with the county or the power company, put her in a long, slow dive and when Alma Jr. was nine and Francine seven she said, what am I doin' hangin' around with him, divorced Ennis and married the Riverton grocer."  [story]

[southendmd]

Alma had a tendency to look rather dowdy.

[Toast]

Here is an interesting scene from the 2003 screenplay after Monroe employs Alma:  (in 1974 or earlier)

Interior: grocery store:  Wyoming:  early evening:
Alma, a little older and a little less skinny, though still just as cute, is clerking at the grocery store.  As she rings up groceries, we see Monroe, now a manager, wearing a cheap tie, flirting, smiling at her. Alma smiles back. The customer leaves.  Alma and Monroe are alone.  Monroe opens a box of Junior Mints and eats one.
Alma:  "What are you smilin' 'bout?"
Monroe:  (chewing, smiles even wider) "Nothin'."
Alma:  "Gotta be somethin'."
Monroe:  "Just happy, I guess."
Monroe throws a Junior Mint at Alma.
Alma: (laughing) "Stop that!"
Just then, Ennis walks into the store.  Monroe and Alma immediately stop their flirting.
Ennis walks up to Alma's counter.  Monroe hurries back to the office, afraid of Ennis.
Ennis:  (pointing to the cigarettes behind the counter) "Two packs."    
Alma:  (not getting the cigarettes) "Who's watchin' the girls?"
Ennis" "They're outside in the truck."
Alma:  (darkens) "I coulda brought home your smokes. 'Sides, it's way past their bedtime."
Ennis:  (grim)  "The quicker you give me the damn smokes, the quicker they'll be home in bed."

[memento]

Alma was fired up about going to the church social which Ennis described as the fire and brimstone crowd.

[Fran]

Alma Jr. and Jenny are clearly entertained by Ennis's story at Thanksgiving, but Alma only glowers.

[southendmd]

Alma haplessly hung on to her husband; then she happened onto happy hubby Monroe.

[Meryl]

After years of putting up with Ennis's indifference to her emotional needs, Alma finally gave up and divorced him.

[memento]

After putting up with years of indifference because of Ennis' relationship with Jack, Alma decided to marry an average joe named Monroe.