Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done a zapateado before the avid lenses of a team from Paris Match, he gives Dominguin some
PACIFYING GINGER For two weeks, Hurricane Ginger moved erratically east and west in the mid-Atlantic. Then it stalled, 650 nautical miles off the Florida coast. For the scientists of Project Stormfury, a long wait was over: now they had an opportunity to experiment with and perhaps partially tame a major hurricane while it was a safe distance from populated land areas...
...that man must always try to oppress the free, tame the wild and humble the proud? There is one thing, however, he cannot take from the mustang -its beauty...
...last few years, as the sexual revolution progressed, the once tantalizing concept of prancing nude through the woods came to seem tame indeed to Southern Californians. Even last year's special event-nude skydiving with music by 15 bare members of the Long Beach Municipal Band-was sparsely attended. Just as well, perhaps, since one hapless skydiver was badly scratched when he landed in a buckthorn patch...
...Great Hunt. The mustang, which helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that...