Word: deere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood sports. But now the worldwide demand for furs has done what sports alone could not. In 1970, India has only 2,500 tigers left. The country's mere 175 lions fare even worse. For one thing, huge numbers of cattle have denuded vegetation, thus driving away the deer upon which the lions feed. For another, some Hindu untouchables have no scruples about eating meat and regularly chase the lions away from kills to appropriate the meat for themselves. Also vanishing: India's blackbuck antelope, sloth bear and snow leopard...
...Indian chief. His small hunting party is annihilated by Sioux who decide to keep the Englishman as a plaything. They dub him Horse, tether his neck and make him clop about on all fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth...
Unhappily, the purity of the tribal footage is often adulterated with synthetic ingredients. When it is in English, the dialogue is an unstable amalgam of Shylock and Hiawatha: "When you fight the enemy and arrows pierce your skin, you bleed like all men." And in the part of Running Deer's mother, Dame Judith Anderson is relegated to pantomimic mother-in-law jokes. Despite these lapses-and a pseudopoetic slow-motion lyricism-A Man Called Horse has one estimable benefit: it avoids the white-race-is-the-cancer-of-history reproof that has marred much of the New Indian...
...blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven. At dawn, the whole party set off, proceeding according to rank in carriages drawn by four or six horses. Beaters drove the game into the enclosures where the hunters waited in comfort. Nobody got any mud on his elegant boots. If the duke missed killing a boar...
...Casimir's has been found, but some idea of the number of game taken on such chases can be had from accounts left by two neighboring dukes, Electors Johann George I and II, who together killed no fewer than 228,478 animals, including more than 110,000 deer. Birkner had none of the great compositional powers of Cranach or Velasquez, both of whom painted accounts of the chase. But Casimir could not have wished for a more faithful descriptive artist. Birkner spared no blood or gore, and no detail escaped his eye. At the same time...