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...birthday and Ernie Holmes, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was picking up the meat for his party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...
...flair that Nixon's lacks. As for Lyndon Johnson, his command of invective was a constant source of purple surprise. But unlike Nixon, he did not mechanically spew out obscenities; he used them pointedly to cap his stories. L.B.J. could make people chuckle with his inventive cussing and barnyard phrases, and those who were not afraid of him rather admired what Newsman Peter Lisagor once called his "rich, almost lyrical, Pedernales patois...
...Ramsey County, N. Dak. He has set off on a buying spree that city people may consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist-for his fields...
...Cuban Revolution as a positive step forward for mankind. It is a deep and clever North American deception to allow professor, scholar, editor alike, to say that they please when we know well that what they please is what we like. The bulls, once surgically restrained, receive all barnyard privileges. Harvard professors, in the aftermath of proper preparation, are allowed their civil liberties...
...describe the Disney collective's view of fine art? Its taste, ultimately, was Walt's and his was not markedly subtle; he had no pretensions to high culture and if he had been encumbered with such longings the barnyard vitality of early Disney would have been lost. When fine-art quotes appear in Disney's films, they are either apocalyptic and expressionist or else genteel: little in between. Their storehouse is, of course, Fantasia (1940). The cold crags and demon-infested clouds of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence refer straight back to the hellscapes of late...