Word: sows
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...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...
...Oliver said, the project will be taken to other schools in Newton and to other communities if it succeeds. "We've gotten away from the idea of a pre-arranged product coming off the assembly line," he said. "From sow on we'll be assessing problems within real communities...
...Richard Serra, 27, whose credentials include a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale and a Fulbright fellowship; he is currently deep in his zoo period. On exhibit were crude cages in which disport two turtles, two quail, a rabbit, a hen, two guinea pigs and a 97-lb. sow. The big pig oinks away as part of a work called Live Pig Cage I. "I'm not saying the pig is art or is not art," says the artist, "but she makes a form." Other goodies on view include a stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed...
...Sow Neurosis. These bogles, unlike most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist...
...easy to dismiss this sort of thing as irresponsible fantasy, but it should be recalled that this last little apparently sick mick joke is directed against James Joyce, who made one of his characters rage against Ireland as "the old sow that eats her own farrow...