Word: cowed
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However, Margaret Adachi’s “Rapture” is so bizarre as to cast doubt on its merit as art. The plush red cow reclining on a stool—udders erect and yarn pubic hair apparent—could easily have been imagined as part of some sort of senior prank...
...optimal SAT score has grown (from 1600 to 2400), and so has the hysteria over the test. While the SAT was once thought to be an objective way of comparing the reasoning of a be-blazered Exeter student to a cow-wrangling intellectual, everyone knows now that “the test can be taught.” Aside from legacy favoring and massive donations, the rich now have another highway to Harvard—boutique SAT tutors...
...more than she did when she wore knee socks?" Or at least, "Where do I send the check for the chicken nuggets?" Actually, not so much. Mostly, our responses range from "I wonder if that would look good on me?" to "I don't know who that skinny-ass cow is, but I hate her already...
...August? Let's Go to Iowa! The Iowa State Fair annually draws turkey callers, cow-chip throwers and piemakers from across the Hawkeye State. This year's fair, which begins next week, is attracting a crowd of competitors from farther afield: possible White House contenders hunting for votes ahead...
...Ramo's Colombian pilot. It turns out that while in flight over the Caribbean, the single-prop had conked out. Ramo and the pilot together got it re-started as it plummeted toward the water (shark-infested, of course!) and managed to make an emergency landing in a different cow pasture - about 50 miles away, in rebel territory. There was no way Ramo would make it to the Casta?o interview, although on the crackly phone line I could hear him and the pilot tinkering with the aircraft's sick engine...