Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romantic imagination and the dusky imagery of Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond produced breathtaking panoramas of majestic landscape and milling hordes. A hundred happy couples waltz in circles within circles in Harvard Yard; 20 years later and 2,500 miles west, another hundred couples roller-skate to fiddle music in a cow-town grange hall. In Cimino's Wyoming, it is never high noon; everything happens in misty morning or dusty dusk, so the oblique, ruminative sunlight can memorialize every moment. Some viewers with educated eyes found scenes of beauty in Heaven 's Gate. Others wished they'd brought...
...Every family have one acre of cow, chickens, orchard, garden, hedgerow, trees...
...Milk cow by hand, now lawn with manual mower, cultivate garden with handplow, become independent of gasoline driven machine, substitute candlelight for electricity...
...soft glow of kerosene lamps and candles. Alice Somers heated corn chowder on an 1887 Rollhaus wood stove, meanwhile keeping her eye on the mulled cider that simmered near by. In the barn behind his parents' 230-year-old colonial home, John Maycuk, 17, helped his Jersey cow give birth to a heifer by the light of a kerosene lantern...
...Stephen Perry's ranch near Galveston, Texas, a black cloud of insects settles on a herd of grazing cattle. The cows frantically swish their tails, trying ineffectively to brush off the bugs. One by one the cows drop dead-40 in all. Scientists at Texas A. & M. veterinary laboratories determine that as much as 5 gal. of blood has been sucked from some of the animals, more than half of a cow's normal blood supply...