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Most notoriously, Giuliani blasted the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999 for exhibiting a painting entitled “The Holy Virgin Mary” that used elephant dung and pornographic images as compositional elements. Of course, almost everyone agrees that if the museum were a private entity it would have the right to display whatever it wanted. But Giuliani argued that the city could cut off public funding to the museum in response to offensive exhibits. “The city should not have to pay for sick stuff,” he told reporters at the time...
When a winemaker counsels others to bury dung-filled cow horns on the autumnal equinox and takes cues from the lunar calendar for everything from vineyard treatments to bottling, it's easy to dismiss his advice as hocus-pocus...
...philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Though he wasn't a grape grower or even a gardener, Steiner set forth guidelines for farming timed to the season as well as the zodiac. Close to homeopathy, biodynamics is hyper-organic stuff. The technique includes eight different steps, using materials from cow dung to chamomile flowers, and is difficult to learn without someone like Armenier coaching. The vineyard worker must watch the calendar and the sun and moonrise for the precise times to add various supplements to the soil...
...investment banker from Washington who took up the sport two years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about being knee-deep in horse dung?" --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles and Sue Raffety/New York, with other bureaus
...cowboy britches all in a knot, hootin’ and hollerin’ over the Crimson editorial condemning Michael E. Kopko ’07’s proposed Dormaid service. “This is nothing short of Marxist horse dung,” drawl the bloggers, arguing that our fair paper “attacks entrepreneurship” (hey…isn’t that a French word you just used...