Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like nothing so much as condemned POWS, fending off questions about why their team consisted of 40 men and zero women ("Their records are not strong." "Women are not interested in sports"). On the other side of the room, Enos Mafokate, the lone black member of South Africa's equestrian contingent, was red-eyed with exhaustion and excitement. "For 30 years," he said, "I have dreamed of this. When they told me I was going to the Games, I could not open my mouth for three hours. I could not even move my jaw. This is something I will never...
...spends half his time on the road, but his heart is in St. Petersburg. His mission is to bring "part of our city's soul" to the rest of the world. Among his idols is Peter the Great, whose wild equestrian statue he passes every day he is at home. "It is the symbol of the city, of enormous power. Peter wanted to learn, not just to command. With great symbols and images like that, you can't feel hopeless or helpless." Gergiev may need every bit of the emperor's strength -- along with those Kirov vitamins...
...Equestrian Club took home the largestgrant, receiving the recommended $1000. The clubsaid it needed the funds to buy more equipment andhelp send its former captain to the nationalchampionships...
Elephants leave a particularly durable image. As a boy, I accepted the skill of the acrobats, equestrian and trapeze artists with some indifference, but the elephants had bulk. Like the blue whale and the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History, the elephant is an undeniably massive presence at the circus...
...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...