Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the simple sheep barn, a few visitors take their last look at Leahy's New England village, set behind a large pond. Others crane at the 40-ft.-tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture of mourning. Buying their last baked potato with sour cream and bacon, taking their last aim at ducks in the gallery shoot, or sizing up a young heifer, most visitors seem oblivious or indifferent to the fact that they are among the last to attend the Great Danbury State Fair...
...snappish dog was unnecessary in the days before Garp. But after his smashing success, Irving's 19th century converted red barn became a target for autograph seekers and scraggly youths offering to do odd jobs for a chance to receive Garpian wisdom at the feet of their reluctant guru. In fact, before Irving's rugged head was known to the nation, the author was a Putney person who did advertise...
...your life back like some kind of ornamental shrub. I couldn't put the old white horse out to pasture, hock the tin armor, stand the lance in the corner of the barn. For a while, yes. For the healing time...
...gray, rainy dawn last week, a virtually unknown colt named Summing started the slow walk from the barn on the backstretch at New York's Belmont Park. Ominous clouds were lowering as Summing jogged onto the training track. Then an exercise rider set him down on the rail, and Summing began to run. Railbirds could not believe their eyes, and the track's dockers stared at their watches in amazement. The bay colt pounded through the mist at a sizzling pace, and when he flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record...
...hopes of smoothing some of Campo's rough edges, Neloy went so far as to enroll him in a Dale Carnegie course. That effort failed. Though Campo could never acquire the social skills of the racing swells, he learned well the lessons of the barn and backstretch. Says Trainer Woody Stephens: "Johnny was a very hardworking guy. Eddie gave him his first push when he sent him out to California with some horses. Buckpasser was one of them, and Johnny handled him well. Step by step, he went on from there...