Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom-that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught. He could con the forked tongue out of a snake. Under Tartuffe's spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making...
Hitler's art collection is often plainly preposterous. Sharing the racks with Rubens are sexy sphinxes and snake-draped nude dancers of Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck, whose fancy for the Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting...
...best way to begin any examination is by taking the patient's pulse. "If the pulse leaps like a frog," he explained, "the problem is in the throat. If it jumps like a cow, it is in the gastric system, and if it is smooth as a snake, then it is in the belly...
...game in the U.S. But when the Pakistanis took on the Indians in the finals, it was the fight for Kashmir all over again. The only goal of the game was scored by India's Mohinder Lai, 28, a railroad worker from Saharanpur, who set off a delirious, snake-dancing demonstration by rifling a penalty shot past the Pakistani goalie-thereby becoming an instant national hero. "I'm certain that they will promote me to senior welfare inspector of the railways," said Lai. "They will have to, because of what I did for my country...