Word: cowing
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Along with Gaston, he begins with such elementary procedures as how to lay out the hunt party's lunch, moves on to more sophisticated exercises like setting snares or stalking wild fowl with an artificial cow. One of the most charming illuminations illustrates the high art of camouflage. The huntsman, drawn in a simple wagon by a white palfrey, has concealed himself and the wagon behind leaves and branches...
...story is overly familiar, and Joanna could have been just another imitative chronicle of a wounded bird, in the manner of Darling or Poor Cow. But Director Same, who also wrote the script, has given it purpose and individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed...
...liquid or powdered form, whether poured over a plate of chow or curdled in a custard, soybeans have provided the Chinese with their main source of protein for 3,000 years. Some people in the Far East even call the soybean "the cow of China." Fittingly, a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, K. S. Lo, has hit on the idea of milking a drink out of the bean and building a prosperous business around it. The product, called Vitasoy, has become the new soft-drink craze in the British crown colony...
...Guiana and Taiwan, and several others are expected to follow soon in other parts of Asia and Latin America. Lo, who owns one-fifth of the company's shares and gets royalties on Puma sales, is managing director of Lomond. Monsanto hopes that under his hand the proverbial cow of China may yet yield a truly international soft drink and, in the bargain, a handy source of protein...
They should be. During Lyndon Johnson's three decades in Washington, the community has been transformed from a decaying, unpaved cow town into a humming tourist mecca. As Congressman, Senator, Vice President and President, Johnson City's native son has showered largesse on his home hill country. First, in New Deal days, came the Lower Colorado River Authority, whose dams harnessed and tamed waters that had ravaged the countryside. Then he won for Johnson City the Pedernales Co-Op, which today provides power from the authority's steam plants to some 18,500 customers in seven counties...