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...steers was infected. Tomorrow soldiers will come, shoot it, bury it deep. Then they will shoot all the healthy cattle in the village herd and send that meat to market. The small owners will all be paid market prices. But what of the rule that no new cattle can graze on village land for two months? Where will the new foundation stock come from? When will the Government make good its promise to replace Juan's work ox with mules...
...pretty, mildly sluggish western about a very bad woman (Veronica Lake), a very good one (Arleen Whelan), a good man (Joel McCrea) and a rat (Preston Foster). The main problems: 1) Will Miss Lake prevail against her father (Charles Ruggles), Foster and his hard guys, in her determination to graze her cattle on land they forbid her? and 2) Which girl will ultimately throw and brand McCrea...
There were heavy crop losses elsewhere. Tens of thousands of sheep and cattle had been destroyed. The prolonged, heavy snows had cost Britain two-thirds of her stock of young hill sheep (those which graze on the uplands and are later sent to the lowlands to fatten). In the lowlands 1,000,000 head had been lost. To wool-weaving, meat-hungry Britain that meant another crisis. The people were going to need every bit of stoicism they could muster...
...very important. They can result in some damn good works. And a 'loose' amateur can sometimes have one." As in writing, he begins not with a mental image but with an idea. "Last week," Odets explains, "I heard a piece by Bach called Sheep May Safely Graze, so I painted a picture showing sheep safely grazing. It's as simple as that...
These last few months Winnie had been about as happy as any Prime Minister could be who had been turned out to graze. On the whole, life was good, even if it was dull. In Florida he would paint, and perhaps start writing those memoirs...