Word: riderless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caroline was five years old when she clung to Jackie's gloved hand at her father's funeral. Jackie had known that her black veil and a riderless horse were right for the slain President. So when it came time to think about how to lay her brother to rest, Caroline sensed that she should take her brother to sea, not to a plot at Arlington National Cemetery, and not to a cemetery that might be transformed overnight into another Graceland...
...escort of 75 motorcycles led the funeral procession, followed by an honor guard and a riderless horse...
...influenced by their social networks and how they make sexual bargains as if they were trading economic goods and services. "We were trying to make people think about sex in an entirely different way," says Kolata. "We all have this image, first presented by Freud, of sex as a riderless horse, galloping out of control. What we are saying here is that sex is just like any other social behavior: people behave the way they are rewarded for behaving...
...Jackie to change her clothes, but she insisted on wearing the stained pink suit. "I want them to see what they have done," she said. She also refused to take tranquilizers, fearing they would blunt her reactions and interfere with her planning -- because plan the funeral she did. The riderless horse, the eternal flame, the wailing Irish bagpipe -- all were her idea. When the hearse rumbled past, she asked little John to salute his father. The nation saw her then as a mother, first and foremost...