Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BERNARD REDER-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. A posthumous tribute shows 20 bronze sculptures and 50 graphics. Reder brilliantly skipped from classical to Old Testament subjects to pure fantasy: he planted blossoms in the back of a cat, perched a cow precariously on a trapeze. The most impressive work is an 8-ft. Aaron gingerly holding the tabernacle in his huge hands. Through...
...spoken, sobersided sincerity during his public appearances in Washington. But let him get a whiff of a spring-fresh Texas range dotted with cattle and Angora goats, and suddenly he comes on like a cross between a teen-age Grand Prix driver and a back-to-nature Thoreau in cow boy boots...
...point, Johnson pulled up near a small gathering of cattle, pushed a button under the dashboard-and a cow horn bawled from beneath the gleaming hood. Heifers galloped toward the car while photographers clicked away and the President looked pleased. As he drove, Johnson talked about his cattle, once plunged into what one startled newswoman called "a very graphic description of the sex life of a bull...
...pictures with a pig "if you can catch one." They started chasing the little pigs, and just as Country Boy Johnson had known all along, the angry sow charged the frightened photographers. While the city slickers fell all over themselves eluding the sow, Johnson guffawed exuberantly, honked his cow horn repeatedly and roared, "Whooeee...
...remain on in the house as a nonpaying guest. But Novelist O'Connor is less interested in plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped as Mrs. O'Leary's cow-Father McGovern, an octogenarian priest who rejoices fiercely every time a parishioner precedes him to the grave; Al Gottlieb, a Jewish businessman who prattles like a borscht-circuit comic...