Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Originally an equestrian, Robinson is a newcomer to the sport of fencing. Already, however, she is beginning to show enough promise to draw rave reviews from her coach...
...Burton's film, however, gleefully embraces the existence of the Horseman; the trailer begins with the decapitated equestrian removing 12 pounds of ugly fat from a local. Furthermore, Ichabod Crane is no longer a mild-mannered, homely schoolteacher but a snobby constable from New York City, played by Johnny Depp. Many new characters have been added, including several new supernatural denizens of the superstitious town. The result is what promises to be a dark, complex, and, as always with Burton, thoroughly weird and wonderful film, a cross between Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, with just a hint...
...seeing any more customers, Elizabeth grabs an armful of freshly returned cassettes and begins to stow them. "Putting the videos away is so monotonous," she says. But she is making $5.90 an hour and claims her work here "is really easy." Between Hollywood Video and nearby Kraus Farms Equestrian Center, where she teaches horseback riding, Elizabeth works 40 hours a week. This year she plans to earn $14,400--nearly what her mother makes as a bank teller...
This gave him the best possible qualification for painting the great and the good. He simply took them at their own valuation, producing vivid epitomes of social standing as he did so. His portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, for instance, remains the definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured...
...Admit it, when you were 12 your room was covered with posters of horses and subconsciously you still haven't gotten over the fact that Santa never brought you a pony. Well, this Saturday is a chance to get out of Harvard, pet some horses and watch the Harvard equestrian team compete in their last show of the fall season. The show is sponsored by Boston University and is a mere 25 miles outside of Boston at Holly Hill Farm. Directions are mad complicated--if interested contact Michael Haynie at mhaynie@fas, FREE...