Cows burning a big pile of books about horses.
Because "Happiness Runs" is described in the production notes as a semiautobiographical movie — inspired by Mr. Sherman's experiences growing up in a polygamous hippie cult in Vermont devoted to free love and drug experimentation — there is the unsettling implication that the cow-burning incident actually happened.
The wails of snake-charmers' horns mingle with the smells of cow manure and burning incense.
The Renouncers' specialist penance involves sitting inside rings of smouldering cow dung in the blazing summer heat, for two to three hours a day, every day, for four months of every year, for 18 years, all gradually increasing the amount of fire, until you finally graduate to wearing a jar containing burning cow dung on your head all day.
While copious amounts of smoke are known to emanate from burning cow dung, and indoor burning of dung has been reported to produce higher PM10 concentrations than that of wood or straw [ 16], the opposite directions of relationship in our study of rice straw and cow dung might be related to the different complement of smoke constituents.
Mudway (2005), however, demonstrated that particles derived from the burning of cow dung cake burned in a traditional Indian cooking stove and deposited in the human respiratory tract lining fluid had considerable oxidative activity, which was mostly due to their transitional metal content [ 22].
Warning: may contain burning cows!
In some foreign eyes, traffic jams, stalled trains and pyres of burning cows have turned Cool Britannia back into the sick man of Europe.
Mr Blair has relished cutting a dash on the world scene as an evangelist for his "third way", saviour of Kosovo and the first western leader to befriend Russia's President Putin.Traffic jams, stalled trains and pyres of burning cows have turned Cool Britannia back into the sick man of EuropeThe second term could bring this world-bestriding statesman down to earth with a bump.
And we think of the mother cows with the burning desire to protect their calves from being kidnapped by the dairy industry.
This year the state government banned the burning of cow dung fuel cakes in the city to prevent the smoke from affecting the Taj Mahal.
