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...dash he has two excellent men in Landau and Sandy Dodge. But both, McCurdy noted, have already begun their annual battle with leg injuries. Dodge has not run hard since incurring a "hamstring" injury early in the fall; and Landau has recently been hobbled by a pulled calf muscle...
...cannot read their own works as well as actors. Frost's cracked voice often sounds like that of the first progenitor of mankind, and his lucid verse sings of subjects appropriate to that early time - the whisper of a scythe in grass, the stumbling of a spindle-legged calf, the rains of autumn...
...digging inside the grotto of Tiberius (who reigned from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.), 90-ft.-deep cavern hard by the site of Tiberius' famed Villa Spelunca (Cave Villa).* Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize. The diggers dug on to more than 400 pieces of polished marble...
...play is a satire, partly poetic, about greed and worshippers of the Golden Calf. A group of men want to drill for oil right under Paris in order to wage a destructive war. The countess and her cohorts find a way of trying them in absentia by proxy, and she then "exterminates" them (how I will not reveal...
Teratology. Descriptive teratology (study of monsters) is almost as old as man. Mythology, folklore and history are full of tales of monsters, from the Cyclops and Harpies of classical times to that rural favorite, the two-headed calf. But experimental teratology (monster-making) is only about 50 years...