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...Experienced ox-roasters were hard to come by after years of meat rationing, but here & there villages found oldtimers who remembered from coronations past how to skewer a beast and cook him whole, Tudor style, on the town common...
...Gore a Neighbor's Ox...
...exhibition, De Kooning celebrates woman in huge canvases covered with fierce slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
Last week the museum bookstore was offering the public a list of 400 art books, reproductions of ancient jewelry, casts of everything from a 3,000-year-old terracotta Greek ox ($2.75) to a shimmering Aphrodite ($37.50). A pet Taylor project is a monthly set of 24 color reproductions for $1.25; more than 4,000,000 sets have been sold since 1948. Other sidelines: traveling shows, lectures five days a week, a loan policy that sent 1,840 treasures to 120 schools, colleges and smaller museums last year...
...Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...