Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machine gun, is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace." Ever since then, the automobile has been present on the margins of Western art, though not, as the horse once was, at its center. There has never been a flow of car images to match the innumerable equestrian ones of the past, because the car is-as Marinetti implied-a work of art already, a mass-produced corporate sculpture, permeated with style. Logically, then, why not have an artist make a car and call it his work of art? In 1966 a California sculptor named Don Potts...
...steeplechaser in England, eventually becoming jockey to the Queen Mother. He knows the hedges and hazards, the sites and social slights of British steeplechasing the way a car owner knows the dashboard of his five-year-old sedan. He has used his experiences to produce ten more or less equestrian suspense stories that are also novels of métier and manners. His best books are Dead Cert (the first, written in 1962), Nerve (1964), For Kicks (1965), Odds Against (1966) and Forfeit (1969). At that level he belongs in the company of writers like John Buchan, who created...
...century ago when Gustave Courbet, one of the fathers of modern art, helped to topple the Vendome column during the Paris Commune of 1871. Modern democracy has flattened the myth of the hero, and there are still no good monuments to Churchill or Roosevelt; to imagine an equestrian bronze of Nixon or Pompidou on some future Capitol is to enter the realm of farce...
What about the buzz that Queen Elizabeth is most unhappy because Princess Anne, 21, is really serious about handsome London Realtor Richard Meade, 32, gold-medal-winning show jumper on Britain's Equestrian Team? "Silly gossip," pooh-poohed the palace spokesman. "He is numbered among her friends." No doubt about that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton...
Sarah has an air of deceptive fragility, but the English lass is really porcelain on the outside, granite within. The girl is stone blind-the result of an equestrian accident. But she is making a wizard adjustment at her uncle's isolated house in Sussex. Then, rather abruptly, things spiral downward. Her boy friend Steve (Norman Eshley) leaves her alone to take an afternoon nap. She awakes to a house full of death. Some bloody maniac has gone crackers with a shotgun, cutting down everyone in the family. But he has accidentally dropped a clue-a bracelet with...