Word: boar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar, a bear, a dog or an ox, depending on how George mixes the colors on his ingenious Palette...
Kingdom of Fantasy. These works rarely showed gods, nor did they often portray men, as in the combat scene surmounting the golden comb (see color). The favorite subjects of the Scythians were animals, and few civilizations created an animal kingdom with a more graceful sense of fantasy. A boar's mane is not just so much wild and scraggly hair, but a crescent of curls to be worn like a crown. A tiger's body is as supple as an accordion: every muscle, every rib, every stripe is there. A deer, though kneeling, seems to be darting through...
Exotic Menu. The ordeal over, Elizabeth and Philip recessed for lunch along the Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend...
ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...
...team uncovered an elegant bronze relief of a boar, which exhibits Greek workmanship, a major discovery this season...