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Where Now, Brown Cow. Wyeth knows that his work is sometimes admired by the wrong people for the wrong reasons. "Ooooo!" he mocks, "Mr. Wyeth, such a bee-o-o-ooootiful cow!" Says he: "I'm a pure abstractionist in my thought. I'm no more like a realist, such as Eakins or Copley, than I'm like the man in the moon." Wyeth is neither a slave to the faithful detailing of nature, as were Courbet and Manet, nor a scientific observer of light and atmosphere, as were the impressionists. "I want more than half...
...grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide open, jaws dropped, certain the two divers will, in less than 17 seconds, bounce and splatter on the grass. "Ooooo, ooooo" we say as two chutes blossom and the jumpers silently glide toward earth. Maclaughlin's brows are down, his lips pursed, his eyes still locked in on his students. "Snap out of it boys," he spits, "you just missed three minutes of information that could make the difference...
...this habit of makin' the same thing sound both good and bad, like he's an optimist and a pessimist at the same time. Nasty little habit, you know, because his real thoughts tend to get buried upstairs, with all the xxxxx's and ooooo...
...talk with a man who could be expected to know: the late historian Douglas Southall Freeman. Freeman gladly explained that the trick of the yell is the "cumulative effect," voice after voice, piercing the eardrums. Then Freeman threw back his head and blasted out with an earsplitting "Ooooo-eeeeeeeee!"* Says Bales with awe: "Once having heard it, you never forget...
...officer throttled his little wife viciously; she pinned his ears to the floor. He came back kicking and swinging; she treated him to a shoulder shrug, a slight wrist twist and a hip flip. Westgate sailed through the air. "Ooooo," said the audience. Detroit's toughest cop was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and twisted tendons. Said his remorseful wife: "I never wanted to learn those tricks. . . . I feel trembly and just awful. . . . I've never hurt him before. It was lack of wall space. I had no perspective in that big hall...