Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film about love and families and the faith that keeps the lives of a group of peasants together. Prayer punctuates their daily lives like the motif in the Bach concerto underscores their joys and sorrows. A woman angrily exhorts the Lord to save the life of her cow; her prayer reprimands a God who would let the only cow of a widow with six children become ill. The Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth...
...pedigreed cows, which sell for as much as $20,000, are injected with a hormone that causes multiple ovulation, the production of more than one egg. The eggs are then fertilized by artificial insemination and, about a week later, the live embryos-usually five, but sometimes ten or more-are withdrawn through the cervix by means of a catheter. Each embryo is then transferred, either by a six-inch incision in the side or directly through the cervix, to the uterus of a less perfect host mother, which carries the superior calf to full term. Since supercows, or "queen bees...
...cost: about $300 for consultation and the initial work plus $400 for every successful pregnancy. Dr. Kourken Bedirian, a Canadian physiologist who has pioneered the transfer of cow embryos, says that the success rate has averaged more than 60%. About 10,000 transferred calves have been born since the process moved from the lab to the barn in the early 1970s, and the procedure is rapidly spreading in the U.S. and Canada. For Bossie, motherhood will never be quite the same again...
...will take you there. Just get off at Haymarket and walk up to Salem St. If you get lost, ask for directions. Or follow the smell or the noise. But if some overbearing food vendor tries to sell you the tripe--an infamous Italian-American delicacy--beware. It's cow intestine...
...Marley gives substance to the detractors of B.F. Skinner, who say that there would be no art, no beauty in his perfectly conditioned world. Marley does indeed fit the trite metaphor describing how the beautiful marigold grows out of a heap of cow dung. Marley is one of the finest songwriters-singers-musicians alive today, even if he believes that deceased Ethiopian head-of-state Haile Selassie...