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...grab that muzzle and that off-horn and just try to wring his neck 'cause it won't break nohow." If the bulldogger's leverage is firm and his power is steadily exerted, the unstable steer will come flopping over on its side like a rag doll...
...Paper-Doll Stare. Offering a rare opportunity to see this uncommon art, the Villa Hugel-formerly the mam Krupp estate in Essen, Germany-has assembled an exhaustive exhibition of Coptic art from private collectors and museums: some 625 works ranging from the Hellenic antecedents, of 3rd century Alexandria, to 20th century examples from Nubia and Ethiopia...
...gestures and folk costumes. As the flight to the desert progressed, their vision became more provincial, and the classicism was discarded. Their sculpture grew smaller and more personal, painting became fragmentary instead of monumental. There is a childlike naivete in the coy games of god and goddess, the paper-doll stare of a saint, the back-patting of Christ and a monk (see color...
...elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...little girls jumped rope. Two fierce little boys drew their wooden swords and thwacked at each other with all their might till both little boys ran away. Two little girls wheeled out a big baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...