Word: cowing
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...rites of autumn, when a young moose's fancy turns to thoughts of love. But one suitor is so smitten that he does not seem to mind that his intended is a Hereford cow named Jessica. The 700-lb. moose has been courting his bovine beloved at the farm of Larry Carrara in Shrewsbury, Vt. Undeterred by the amusement of some 4,000 onlookers, the moose has made several amorous advances, only to have the cow trundle away...
...only is Jessica not interested, she has a white-faced bull friend by whom she has borne two calves. Says Carrara: "She is very good-looking." Even if she relented, the mating would not produce a hybrid moose-cow, since the animals' chromosomes do not match up. Time is running out as well for the lovelorn moose. The end of the mating season is at hand, and he is expected to drift back to his own kind...
Mozart once wrote that he composed music as effortlessly as a cow urinates. Chekhov was more genteel about his own fluency. "I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny," he says, and elsewhere picks up an ashtray and offers to have a story about it ready for the next day. Editors of Russia's literary journals appreciated this facility and Chekhov's acceptance of editing to satisfy Czar Alexander III's censors...
THREE YOUNG MEN, their faces painted with geometrical designs, were lying in the rubble of what was to be a life-size papier-mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...
Everyone had to laugh. The builders of this joke-cow didn't really care if Columbia figured out a reason for the sacrifice. The rubble was there only to demonstrate that they had managed to have a good time in some mysterious way. And that's all that mattered...