Word: cornes
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...This season, the oxen sniffed contemplatively at several of the trays. One then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The verdict was grim: a drought, most likely, since no water was drunk, and a poor rice harvest to boot...
...deeply superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
...This year, the oxen sniffed contemplatively at several of the trays. One then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The outcome was grim: a drought, for sure, since no water was drunk, and a poor harvest to boot...
...deeply superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
Hopper can bring to mind Robert Frost, another complex operator who was drafted into the role of corn-fed American. Like Frost, Hopper possessed a sophisticated aesthetic camouflaged by the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness of his art. It's true that he wanted American painting to stop taking its marching orders from France. But he was never the honking cultural isolationist that Thomas Hart Benton became, thundering on about the perversities of European art and the prancing New Yorkers who bought into it. By contrast, Hopper made it to Paris no fewer than three times from...