Word: cloven
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...struck Fall as an outrage. What offended as much as the usurpation was the sex of the usurper. The U.S. has always been a patriarchal arrangement, at least in its politics. Presidents were to be, in the racy formula that Queen Elizabeth I once used, "crested, not cloven." The American political style savored of saloons and cigars, and took its vocabulary (front runner, dark horse) from the race track. It was Founding Fathers, not Founding Mothers, who drafted the Constitution. Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband John, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous...
...that plague livestock, none is as devastating as foot-and-mouth disease. Highly contagious and with no known cure, it blisters the feet, tongues and mouths of animals, and causes lameness, weight loss and, in dairy cows, reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more...
...much time for fiction. The names of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...
...appearance, wrote scribes of the era, was "cadaverous," and there was something so supernatural about 19th century Violin Virtuoso Nicolo Paganini "that one looked for a glimpse of a cloven hoof or an angel's wing." Onstage, the maestro would often contort his body into bizarre stances. His tours de force, like playing a pizzicato accompaniment with his left hand while bowing with his right, prompted audiences to whisper that Paganini was in league with the devil. But alas, he was merely mortal, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The violinist, writes...
...Paul Taylor dance may not leave the audience time to blink. Polaris is a bold conceit in which the choreography is repeated but the performers, music and lighting shift. In Cloven Kingdom, a satire on modern manners, the dancers slide between the human and animal kingdoms. The bright costumes of Post Meridian seem to make their own choreography. In Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best...