Word: heifer
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...York is supposed to be the center of the art universe," says DAVID LYNCH. "Ha!" Forgive Lynch his New York City animosity. In June the director was asked by the people behind the kid-friendly Cow Parade NYC 2000 to turn a fiber-glass heifer into art for the city's streets. Most of the 1,200 other art cows are as amiable as their living counterparts, but, as you can see below, Lynch did something a little different. The cow was displayed for a week in San Francisco without incident but never made it out of packaging...
...same spirit, we've received some unforgettable presents, such as the water buffalo sent by a cousin. Actually, the beast was donated in our family's name through the Heifer Project International heiferproject.org to a village in the Philippines. That year, after Christmas dinner, we had fun naming our animal, imagining what it looked like, and wondering whether we could get one for our village in upstate New York. The Wal-Mart epiphany and my cousin's generosity had taken us far: the Year of the Water Buffalo stands out as the Christmas when my family finally managed to give...
...George, his neighbor in New Hampshire, needed some help getting his heifer in the family way. So, while O'Rourke grabbed the cow's head and George hugged the middle, a farmer named Pete proceeded with the artificial insemination at the far end. Though he missed most of the intimate details, O'Rourke recalls one thing: "I will never forget the look on that cow's face." That same look, for just about the same reason, appeared on his face when he examined last year's federal farm bill, which, he claims, "does to the taxpayer what Pete, George...
...popular movie Heathers features a cow-tipping scene in which two drunken jocks push over a heifer to prove their masculinity. In her recent book "Saturday Night in America," Susan Olean writes that "On Saturday night, there [is]...the highest number of reported incidents of cow toppling in rural Pennsylvania." This claim was prominently featured in a New York Times Magazine excerpt of the book...
...difficulty is the requirement (as in Numbers 19: 1-10) that priests purify their bodies with the cremated ashes of an unblemished red heifer before they enter the Temple. Following a go-ahead from the Chief Rabbinate, institute operatives spent two weeks in August scouting Europe for heifer embryos that will shortly be implanted into cows at an Israeli cattle ranch...