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

[memento]

enturing to stand up to L.D. on Thanksgiving day by threatening to knock his "ignorant ass into next week" if he didn't sit down, Jack felt vindicated when L.D. automatically obeyed, returning to his chair.

[southendmd]

enturing to stand up to L.D. on Thanksgiving day by threatening to knock his "ignorant ass into next week" if he didn't sit down, Jack felt vindicated when L.D. automatically obeyed, plopping into his chair.

=thanks= Sandy
 

[Fran]

"^{isually enthralling and emotionally overpowering" were words used by film critic Rex Reed to describe Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain after seeing it at the Toronto International Film Festival.}

TIFF: Thank God It’s Toronto!

[Sason]

isionary, as it may seem, the minister made a somewhat dubious joke about Ennis maybe not kissing the bride.

[memento]

exed and depressed from the post-divorce mixup, Jack headed south of the border where he toured the back alleys of Juarez.

[Fran]

^{isually stunning and beautifully acted, the film Brokeback Mountain tells a story of love, fear, torment, loss, regret, and unfathomable grief.}

[Meryl]

^{exed at himself for getting drunk and abandoning the sheep for a night in the tent with Jack, Ennis has his fears confirmed when he hears the barks and whimpers of a blue heeler near the herd.}

[Fran]

Round 878!

The letter "W" is next.

Each post will begin with a word that starts
with the letter "W" and include an unplayed word.

In Brokeback Mountain, author Annie Proulx made mention of
the direction west more times than any other direction:

In August Ennis spent the whole night with Jack in the main camp and in a blowy
hailstorm the sheep took off west and got among a herd in another allotment.

The next week Joe Aguirre sent word to bring them down -- another, bigger storm
was moving in from the Pacific -- and they packed in the game and moved off the
mountain with the sheep, stones rolling at their heels, purple cloud crowding in
from the west and the metal smell of coming snow pressing them on.

The day was hot and clear in the morning, but by noon the clouds had pushed up
out of the west rolling a little sultry air before them.

Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on
such a day but the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up.

On the third morning there were the clouds Ennis had expected, a grey racer out of
the west, a bar of darkness driving wind before it and small flakes.

The bedroom, at the top of a steep stair that had its own climbing rhythm, was tiny
and hot, afternoon sun pounding through the west window, hitting 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.

The direction west is available to assist us
with this round, so please be sure to include
the following symbol at the beginning of your post:

[southendmd]

estward went the wayward sheep during August's blowy hailstorm.

[Sason]

hen Jack was doing rodeo, before he met Lureen, he earned so little that he basically starved.