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...eight-foot-long, five-foot-high fiberglass cow is this town's claim to fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...bones, they could deduce how much force had been needed to make them. So with the help of Stanford biomechanical engineers they crafted a false Tyrannosaurus tooth out of bronze and aluminum, then mounted it in a guillotine-like device and slammed it into the pelvic bone of a cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE MEAN BITE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...SIMPSONS Audiences aren't exactly having a cow; the clan was an underachiever in ratings wrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 22, 1996 | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...have barely been studied, and with good reason. Annual floods smother the land with thick layers of silt that dry into impenetrable clay. What's more, says Diehl, "about 80% of the entire Olmec territory in southern Mexico has been converted in the past 20 years from jungle to cow pastures and sugar-cane fields. There's so much vegetation on the surface that you can't just pick up pottery. Generally, you can't even see the ground." Beyond that, the hot, humid climate makes the work extremely unpleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: MYSTERY OF THE OLMEC | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, Tyler visits a Tuscan villa where the regulars rhapsodize over her innocence, her naturalness, her cutiful-beautifulness. In James Mangold's Heavy, she is a waitress at an upstate New York diner, and the cow-size chef gets mooncalf eyes at her approach. These movies are all about looking at Liv. They are votive offerings to a budding star from old connoisseurs and randy swains. When the camera isn't genuflecting before Tyler, it's copping a feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE LIFE TO LIV--BUT CAN SHE ACT? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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