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Both Jockey Chris McCarron, 32, and Trainer Jack Van Berg, 50, are accomplished men who lacked only racing's crowning credit. McCarron felt blessed to be on any horse in any race. Last October he broke his leg four ways in a fearsome crack-up at Santa Anita, and when Alysheba commenced clipping Bet Twice's heels with three-sixteenths of a mile to go, the rider looked sure to take another fall. "I thought I was gone," he said. Somehow McCarron was still astride and suddenly even ahead. "C'mon, wire," he prayed. "Quick...
...Berg is a second-generation "king of the claimers," whose father Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
...Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and a woman were separately indicted by a grand jury in Denver for depriving Radio Talk Show Host Alan Berg of his civil rights -- by machine-gunning him to death...
...Vienna there arose a second Viennese School that included Arnold Schoenberg, whose earliest music is the most listenable, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. Their music is often contorted and bizarre, with very strong dissonances...
...contrast, Europe's buzzing controversies are full of life. West Germany, with the liveliest opera scene, is chockablock with radical restagings of the classics -- in extreme cases to such an extent that the original work is almost obliterated by the new context. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of Berg's Lulu in Munich sets the action in a four-story madhouse with Wedekind's tawdry story played out in front of an onstage audience of gaping mummies. To be sure, London's Royal Opera and the Vienna State Opera remain committed to traditional opera staged in traditional ways, sung...