Word: tribes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time of plague and great hunger as the Baramundi tribe began life A.J. (After Jerri). They had eaten all their rice, and as CBS taunted us with the possibility that Amber had not made it out of her dead Queen's shadow in time to feel safe with her fellow Ogakors, Keith and Colby were forced to wander the fields of the Outback in a comically edited ritual known to Colby as "grasshopper wrangling." Yet even as the bait ran them ragged, they could catch no fish...
...sudden bust that has followed the coffee boom, hurting almost everyone in the area. In the past year, world coffee prices have plummeted. Farmers who in 1999 could get $1.40 per kilo now earn only 40 cents. That doesn't cover production costs. Y Dien, born into the Ede tribe 40 years ago, lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able to buy a television and Vietnam's ultimate...
...snorkel. And there amid the coral occurred a great, G-Rated Romance, Hollywood-style. (Fast-action "happiness montage" included.) They were destined to be together, you see, and besides we had a subplot to plumb: Jerri making her move (and her moves) on the king of the tribe that maybe needed a reason to keep her around. Very "To Catch a Thief," with maybe just a touch of "Pretty Woman." (Though the repartee was more like "Home Improvement." Sample conversation, on the way over: Jerri, her teeth on full blast: "Wow, we are in the middle of nowhere." Colby...
...voting with their hearts on behalf of their nerves, the remaining seven can now settle in for a kindler, gentler stretch run. "Based on that vote, the game has changed," Jeff Probst intoned as Jerri departed. "And a new tribe has finally been born." Wow. The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen...
Brown is in the show's "Kucha" tribe and has made it to episode seven...