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Contestants in the run-off election are the Stallion, the Puma, the Dragon, the Penguin, and the Bull Terrier “Astra,” Kirshner’s canine. Votes have not yet been counted but victory is still very up-in-the-air, says Marsh, who is coordinating the process...
...been known to tell them at the Black Cat bar, one of the two wateringholes in tiny Seligman, Ariz., with a longneck Budweiser in front of him. One recent night, after gently tapping some Bull Durham tobacco into his rolling paper, Knox pulled tight the yellow drawstrings on the pouch. He moistened the paper, rolled the cigarette, lit it. Then he leaned over the bar and, in a soft voice, recited an old Bruce Kiskaddon verse about the dangers of an enraged cow: "Think a cow boy cain't run? Well you aint seen one sail/ When a cow blows...
...band’s resurrection of the spirits of the growing crowd was a tour de force that is sure to have made more than one audience member wonder if The Noelles could change their name to Red Bull Something after the show (The band is actually named after a girl.) Although this relatively new band did not have its usual drummer on hand, (he is currently attending high school in D.C.), The Noelles seemed perfectly at ease while on stage— perhaps their comfort is the result of the five other shows they have given over the past...
...Really?" I asked. I did not pursue this. I did not say, "Bull." I did not suggest that Stan was full of it. I did not define for Stan the meaning of the word "reigning"-as in Reigning World Champions. And I did not say, "Not only are we still baseball's champions, but the Pats are world champs till next winter, too, and they did it by going through Pittsburgh-in Pittsburgh (the Steelers are Stan's football team...
...Embroideries" depicts Satrapi and a klatch of her female friends and relatives engaged in an after-dinner bull session. The men, naturally, have all gone off to take a nap while the women clean up and settle down to tea. The place is Iran and the time is 1991, when Satrapi was 20. The dominant character is the grandmother, who Satrapi depicts as a highly independent, worldly woman who goes from bad-tempered ogre to mild and caring "grandma" only after having her morning tea with a bit of opium mixed in. After the dishes are done, she presides over...