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...world, a delight in vision as if it were some magic new gift, which painting had lost and would not acquire again until the triumph of impressionism. In a picture labeled simply The Hound "Balliveau," no pains have been taken with composition. The subject is tied to a barn wall. To see the picture, though, is to brood on the look of this ungainly dog as if a new species had just been invented. And in the best landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, one can almost see the air. It is as if the slow exposure required by the technology...
...next morning Reagan and his wife were at the horse barn by 10 o'clock. He likes to ride for a couple of hours each morning and work in the afternoon. He saddles the horses himself, cleans their hoofs and, in the past, even changed their shoes. He climbed up on Little Man, still spirited and shrewd enough to open gates with its nose. Reagan had ridden the horse's mother in one of his movies, Stallion Road, bought her and later bred her. A practiced hunter and jumper, he now restricts himself to trail riding. He loves...
...obsessive to allow any alternative notion or any modification, would seem to be as limited at one extreme as Rocky was at the other. Now, it's perfectly all right to believe that we are nothing but animals; but if you really believe it, go live in a barn--don't make movies about it. The implication of Scorsese's movie is that we live like animals, he lives like a director. Taxi Driver was nihilistic, but the view was Travis's; and if we suspected all along that it was Scorsese's as well, that was incidental. Raging Bull...
...Victorian manse on the edge of nearby Lake Garfield, the cavernous, antiquated kitchen was bathed in the soft glow of kerosene lamps and candles. Alice Somers heated corn chowder on an 1887 Rollhaus wood stove, meanwhile keeping her eye on the mulled cider that simmered near by. In the barn behind his parents' 230-year-old colonial home, John Maycuk, 17, helped his Jersey cow give birth to a heifer by the light of a kerosene lantern...
...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...