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...nightmare bulls. Chinese dragons, purple monkeys, Byzantine kings, Greek satyrs, cranberry-colored Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico...
...enveloped her breasts and her face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees, her thighs and her feet. She lay with shut eyes, the colour of rosy flame through her lids ... She reached and put leaves over her eyes. Then she lay again, like a long white gourd in the sun, that must ripen to gold ... She was beginning to feel warm right through. Turning over, she let her shoulders dissolve in the sun, her loins, the backs of her thighs, even her heels. And she lay half stunned ... (page...
...mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed by Oscar Schlemmer for a Bauhaus ballet, are only a little less spectacular...
...earnestness and calmly informative narration, no St. Louis moviegoer has protested its plentiful shots of bare-breasted women and unadorned men or its savagely raw scenes, e.g., as a test of manhood, a young warrior taps the jugular vein of a bound cow, lets the blood flow into a gourd and gulps it down...
...breathing animals, including humans, have cytochrome systems (a gourd of three iron-containing enzymes related to hemoglobin) in their body cells. These systems provide the basic means by which all animals utilize oxygen in the tissue...