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...well-executed TV story lines: they're just the same damn thing over and over again, yet each time they affect and sting as if they were brand new. Even after Tony learns the reason for Junior's repetitions, the medical explanation doesn't put him at ease. The ox-strong, confident don looks at the brittle, fading old man he has replaced as head of the family--a man, recall, who once tried to have Tony killed--and asks, heartbroken, "Why's it got to be something mean? Why can't you repeat something good?" The Sopranos does...
...Bronze Ox Head China failed three years ago to persuade auctioneers to return four bronze animal heads believed to have been stolen from a Summer Palace fountain 140 years ago by British and French troops. But it eventually managed to repatriate three of the bronzes?by buying them at auction for $4 million...
...album also faced the challenge of being released by an underground artist on a relatively obscure underground label—Definitive Jux Records, also home to Aesop Rock and Cannibal Ox. But years of experience in Boston’s scene have made Lif a master of getting word out on his music...
...holds a sleeping woman. She agrees to be his wife, but upon discovering that he has hidden her jar, she disappears. Searching for his wife, the fisherman finds her captured by a demon warrior and must rescue her with the aid of a cowardly elephant and a lame ox. Full of adventure, romance and magic, "The Yellow Jar" and its companion story, "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens," about of a pair of flower sisters who take up residence in a monk's prized garden, couldn't be more delightful...
...Color King's point. I've always liked "oxblood red," which I imagine as a deep, earthy red. Honestly, however, I'd be hard pressed to differentiate the color of an ox's blood from a dog's or a pigeon's (often used to describe the reddest of Burmese rubies). But then, Finlay's vivid writing colors my judgment. By bringing out the darker side to colors, she makes them all the brighter...