Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems likely that the Spoleto show will have a lasting effect. It has proved once and for all to Italians that there is something more interesting to look at in the way of outdoor sculpture than the pompous equestrian statues of Victor Emmanuel II, which clutter up many of their piazzas. The naked use of common industrial methods to produce sculpture has stripped away much of the mystery of the craft, has humanized what had been before a less than generally appreciated art form. Last week an ironmonger who had been hired to fasten steel straps around the bases...
...Guiding his horse Injun through a faultless ride over a 17-obstacle 810-yd. course, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, top U.S. equestrian and captain of the 1960 Olympic team that won a silver medal in jumping, easily won London's Country Life and Riding Cup competition at White City Stadium. Steinkraus toured the course in 90.6 sec., beat Britain's George Hobbs...
Humbert Foucheval (played by author Lance Morrow) stole the bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter...
...show [Nov.'3]. Actually it was a very nice horse, and if he'd had any kind of a chauffeur up on him at all, he'd have done pretty well. Anyway, Bobby says if I can be referred to as the onetime scourge of the equestrian East, give him five more years and he'll be All-American...
...Manhattan's National Horse Show, Argentina's sharp equestrian team, led by Dr. Hugo Arrambide, who won the individual championship, trotted off with both top awards. A poor third: the favored U.S. team...