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 n.— «What could easily have been a humiliating two-hour-and-15-minute episode of tummysticks-on-the-range in the hands of a lesser director and writers is saved through the sheer coldness of the combined one-two of Ang Lee and Larry McMurtry.» —“Chokeback Mountain” by Choire Sicha New York Observer (New York City) Nov. 21, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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