Word: cow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...
...Anthropologist George Devereux has catalogued dozens of ancient methods-magical incantations, jumping from high places, applying hot coals to the abdomen. Hawaiian women fashioned stilettos representing Kupo, god of abortions, then thrust them into the uterus. Even now, Ceylonese girls brew an abortifacient by boiling a poisonous yam in cow urine or liquid dung, and then swallow the stuff for seven days...
...Pretend. And why are seasoned pros interested in playing Strasberg's little game of let's pretend? "For a cow to give milk," explains Actor-Director Barrault, "she must go back out into the fields from time to time." Adds Director Malle: "We needed Strasberg. I know that some French actors will say his method leads to overly introspective, overly personalized performances. But that's just our trouble. The French actor suffers from under-introspection...
...Reminiscing about 1964 on educational TV, Goldwater confided: "We had every cable of every television company and every radio company marked up in the loft of the Cow Palace. If anybody got a little too obnoxious to us, they could always have cable trouble." Next day on ABC Barry explained that it was all a joke. "There never was any thought of cutting lines," he said...
...Liverpool hairdresser, and Sons Zak, 2, and month-old Jason. Ringo, who never practices drums between Beatle performances, has made his place the group's unofficial clubhouse; on the spacious grounds are a treehouse and an old air-raid shelter, and indoors an elaborate bar named The Flying Cow...