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...While the lovers are drawing close enough to realize the distance between them, they are constantly shadowed by a working-class British officer, Ronald Merrick (Tim Pigott-Smith). Perversely relishing his lack of old school ties, Merrick remains a perennial odd man out in British India, resented by well-bred Britons, resentful of well-heeled Indians...
Bush's disparaging locker-room comments show an unbelievable lack of dignity. He and his wife, who also made offensive remarks, are supposedly "well bred" and "patrician." But when they talk, they use gutter language...
...what the soft-spoken Kentucky-born and -bred young man does off the track is beside the point. Steve Cauthen, once the most celebrated American rider since Paul Revere, has gone over to the British, and last week he became the first American since World War I to carry off the coveted British jockey's title for most winners during the year...
...Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
Bush, the well-bred Ivy Leaguer, does not attack his opponents very convincingly. Instead of going for the jugular, he often feints and pricks without cutting deep. Too often he seems to think out loud, and his hand gestures tend to be imperfectly synced with his speech. In a recent address at the Illinois capital, his lampoon of Mondale had a schoolboy quality. "I must say, I'd hate to be Walter Mondale these days," said Bush. "I do, I honestly do feel sorry for Fritz Mondale at times. He's a negative sort of guy. Whenever...