Word: cowdung
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...press and production, both Bright Eyes albums are really nothing more than lowest-common-denominator pop music. Oberst’s invocation of the American singer-songwriter tradition is particularly frustrating, as he exploits all of its rhetoric without achieving any of its art. His Nebraska never stank of cowdung, and his scrawny middle-class heartbreak is as trite as it is insincere. Fans of Bright Eyes should stop settling for less, ditch the poseur, and celebrate the genuinely talented songwriters this country has been producing for decades, from Woody Guthrie to Lou Barlow...
...impoverished country like India, Hari goes to the roadside vendor, pays more money for fewer vegetables because there simply aren't enough to go around, returns to his shanty and puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it-if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind in order that spectators may not be offended by his polecat effluvia...
...brash, I'd like to tell Mr. Oven-dale that they ain't hardly none of us out here in the Bible Belt what goes to Kahlege, because we're so busy just a-scrapin' the cowdung off our heels an' plowin' the south forty an' one thing an' another that we just naturally don't have time. We don't hardly even have time to stretch our American brains, like he asked us to do. But we do know that the King of England shouldn't be talked...
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