Word: boxcarful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superiority complex. But fortunately, a good horse doesn't know who his trainer is." Others may scorn Campo's city background and his own ineptness in the saddle. ("He's no horseman," says a Kentucky breeder. "I don't think he could ride in a boxcar with the doors closed.") But Campo is equally -and justifiably-haughty about his accomplishments. Says he: "I'll put myself and my record up against anybody in this country, in the world, head-to-head. I'm a good trainer. I know what I can do. This horse...
According to its boosters, the Lear Fan could well reshape general aviation technology. The lightweight airframe is made from rolls of graphite mixed with epoxy resin wrapped around molds like vinyl wallpaper and then baked under pressure in an oven the size of a boxcar. The unpainted fuselage looks like a black plastic drainpipe but it is as tough as titanium; only carbide-tipped drills can cut through it. Pratt & Whitney engines concealed in each side of the plane drive the distinctive 90-in. propeller sticking out of the back of the plane. Because it weighs only...
...responsibility, something Cummings made a career of avoiding. Richard Kennedy's fat, workmanlike and affectionate book, Dreams in the Mirror, is the first full-scale scholarly biography of the poet. Partly because of Cummings' character, reading it is a bit like wrestling in a boxcar full of feathers. The cargo is ticklish, and there is precious little weight for the volume...