Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These wretched people are sent to filthy slaughterhouses like a herd of sick, neglected cattle. But I won't talk about it, I only get nightmares from such thoughts...
...Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn foals, and the Russians are sure to rustle them unless General Patton rapidly develops some horse sense...
...Gagging geese in Strasbourg are force fed by husky women who stuff funnels down their gullets, the better to make foie gras. A herd of hefty women on the Bismarck Archipelago bolt down endless helpings of tapioca, the better to make fat wives for the scrawny chieftain...
Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...
...approved 1,000-to-1 in a national referendum in January. With the nation behind him, the Shah has pushed steadily ahead with his land split-up, despite loud outcries from the big landowners. A few weeks ago, one outraged group, the nomadic Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesmen, who herd cattle in the Southern province of Ears, registered its protest by attacking Iranian police posts, killing ten officers and men. When the dissident Qashqai refused to surrender and were joined by malcontents of two other tribes, the Shah grimly ordered his air force to crush the revolt. Peeling...