Word: goats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road to the tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...cost the French army hundreds of hands to put the Tuaregs in a kissing mood. The fierce, veiled warriors of the high Sahara gave up their murderous ways only in 1917, when they settled uneasily into a pastoral life as goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali...
...insisting that their men go veiled while the women's faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign of beauty among the Tuaregs, and many tribesmen force-feed their wives on macaroni and goat's milk just as the people of Strasbourg stuff their geese...
...Carlisle was enjoying himself. Now it was the second quarter and first down on the Texas 37. Why, everybody knows that Texas never passes on first down, never, never passes inside its own 40. So back went Carlisle, out went Harris-and once more Donnelly was the Navy goat. Lunging for the ball, Donnelly tipped it straight into the Texan's hands on the Navy 37-and fell flat on his face. The rest of the 63-yd. trip was a breeze. Another TD, 14-0. At last Navy got the message and started blanketing Harris. Down to earth...
...says at last, and the word sets in train the strange and affecting tale of this strange and brilliant Italian film, the hilarious and horrifying parable of a Judas goat who innocently leads a lamb to the slaughter...