Word: tauruses
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...Germany, with billings of $25 million; it has made "4711" cologne Germany's biggest TV advertiser, and pushes 30 other products ranging from Opel cars to Henkel soaps. In second place, with billings approaching $20 million, is J. Walter Thompson, which has helped to make the Ford Taurus Germany's hottest-selling medium-priced car, and has had to move to roomier offices seven times since it opened in West Germany nine years ago. Fastest growing of all is Young & Rubicam, which started in 1955 and has vaulted into the top ten among agencies by boosting its billings...
...dragged back to serfdom. As a young man, he elopes with the village belle on the eve of her marriage to Abdi's nephew. Tracked down in the forest, Memed loses his girl but kills the nephew and escapes to the crags and hidden valleys of the Taurus mountains, where he joins a band of outlaws and finally becomes a Turkish Robin Hood. After a dozen gunfights, in which bursts of Homeric rhetoric alternate with bursts of grenades and guns, Memed at last avenges himself by murdering his goat-bearded enemy, Abdi Agha. Then, like a proper hero...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. This quirky novel revolves with less than planetary steadiness around the zodiacal notions of a Polish countess who is stranded in Mexico; fortunately the author's astrologic chopping is relieved by fine descriptions of Mexican sights and sounds...
...remarkably varied collection of poems, essays and stories, joyfully cantankerous Author Graves goatfoots it, in his words, at "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head." The Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. A curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico's sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...