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The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.
I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.
When the rope goes taut, the second answers “That's me”; the leader will then belay and instruct the second “Climb when you're ready”; the second says “Climbing,” and the leader acknowledges, “Aye, aye.”
Waifish and vulnerable, Heche doesn't have an extra ounce of flab on her, and you can read how high the stakes are in her taut body and hungrily searching eyes.
The pay hike is being driven by taut labor markets and the revival of inner-city industry.