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...fourth dismal preview in Manhattan, Producer David Merrick, 54, flashed a sort of risus sardonicus and announced: "Rather than subject the drama critics and the theatergoing public to an excruciatingly boring evening, I have decided to close the show. It's my Bay of Pigs." And this particular sow's ear will cost Merrick...
...approving. But from roughly A.D. 1100 to 1500, argues Blumenkranz, an Austrian Jew, Judaism was an object of hatred and scorn in Christian art. Mocking the Jews' refusal to eat pork, a sculptured capital from a church in Uppsala, Sweden, depicts Jews drinking at the udders of a sow. Although the Gospels explicitly accuse Roman soldiers of bringing about Jesus' death, some artists went out of their way to show Jews scourging...
...felt the book should break down into something intellectually reasonable, so you could see the connection between things," explains Julia. "The idea was to take French cooking out of cuckoo land and bring it down to where everybody is. You can't turn a sow's ear into veal
Orloff, but you can do something very good with a sow's ear." Putting theory into practice was something else...
...Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by one Jacob Nufer, an accomplished Dutch sow-gelder, who used a razor for surgery on his wife. She not only survived, but went on to bear him six more chil dren, all by normal births...