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...lovely father can curse so badly," one child wrote. Complained another: "Father shouted at pedestrians, Mother shouted at Father, and they both got so cross my father almost lost control of himself and the car." Or " 'You arse with ears!' my father shouted" and " 'You ox, you stupid cowboy, why don't you stay in your pastures?' And the other driver said, 'Shut your trap, there's a draft...
...next intercollegiate action for the Crimson will be the national intercollegiate tournament on March 11 in Darien, Conn., at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club. Yale is the defending national champion...
...fair example of Wiley's bricolage, with its rusty pickax snagged, like an unwanted anchor, on a knotted line from an improvised fishing pole, its ragged sheet of ox hide, its confusingly labeled ("Fresh Bait," "Nietzsche") objects perched on a raw wood shelf. They can only be decoded in terms of Wiley's own convoluted memories, but their point has more to do with a remark of Marcel Duchamp, whom Wiley vastly admires: "There is no solution because there is no problem." This openness and tolerance toward objects and meanings is the essential subject of Wiley...
...from sanitized middle-class meetings with benches set out for tourists, to clandestine nightlong orgies in forest grottos. Whatever the style, all groups believe in a family of "spirits" or orixas, who usually resemble Christian saints. Thus lemanjá, the sea goddess, is identified with the Virgin Mary and Oxóssi with St. Sebastian...
...want people to wonder at what forces created him, terrible, vindictive, cold, calm man-child, courage in one hand, the machine gun in the other, scourge of the unrighteous--"an ox for the people to ride...