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...Symbolism is the thought of 1900," Art Historian Victor Beyer suggests in the catalogue, "while art nouveau is its gesture, its spasm." Even at this distance, one can sense how liberating the gesture must have seemed: an escape from the thick, relentlessly overstuffed world of Second Empire Paris into an imagery of free movement and rhythmic arabesque. The art nouveau line-whiplike, airy, eddying back on itself-was common to high art as well. A good example is Gauguin's portrait of the painter Roy, 1889, with its serpentine forms of background and hair (see color page...
This singing, dancing and comic posturing all takes place against the background of Joe Mobilia's solid-seeming set, which recreates the look of the infamous Tower on one side of the stage, and of a 16-century English village on the other. Linda Beyer's costumes demarcate character with style and color; especially stunning is the apparel she designed for bride and bridegroom--matching outfits of forest green velvet and light green silk, evoking images of verdant woods and fertility...
Picking Winners is far any away the best of "how to beat the race" books. If you are serious about wining money at the races and willing to put some time into it. Beyer may have an everlasting effect on your life. If you are just getting started effect on your life. if you are just getting started in the business. Picking Winners may provide just the false security you need to really get into the sport...
...book ends with a classic example of racetrack logic as Beyer provides the reader with a race to be handicapped. Using the infinite knowledge absorbed from the preceding pages, we are steered toward an animal named "Where Am I," whose credentials fit perfectly into Beyer's scheme of things...
...final page, we find that "Where Am I" was soundly trounced by a horse that had no business in the race in the first place. This leads to Beyer's definitive statement on horseracing: "Nobody ever said this was an easy game...