Word: canter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the seams show, however, the quilt is crazy indeed. When Elizabeth Taylor and Dana Andrews take a canter, for example, the background rushes by as if they were flat-racing. And at several points there are sharp cuts in the film, one of them so drastic that the audience almost loses track of the story. This is the more important because the story, based on a novel by Robert Standish, is more complex and subtle than most of those told on the screen...
Although he handily mastered the mannerisms of the famous comedian-the giddy, stiff-legged Cantor canter, the twittering hands, the O-mouth and popeyed stare-Brasselle could not find in himself the essential thing that makes Eddie run: the dynamo that sends through his audiences a crackle of sympathetic electricity. As a result, the spectator is always conscious that Brasselle is trying to be like Cantor, and cannot decide which performer to be embarrassed for. Besides which, 116 minutes is too long for any take-off to take...
Eight years of planning will reach fruition Jan. 1, when the University will take over control of the new Botany building at the end of Divinity Avenue. The Canter Construction Company of Boston is now completing the project...
...hard in his off hours, whether at bridge (10? a point), hunting, riding, or reading in his 14-room white brick house in suburban Lake Forest. A voracious reader, he races through three or four volumes a week, mostly history and biography. For years he took an early-morning canter on his chestnut-colored Arabian horse Kebar, but has recently been forced to take up golf because all his friends "got too old" to ride. A hunter who used to go after mountain goats, moose and grizzlies, he now limits himself to smaller game such as pheasant and quail...
Muscovites may have been slightly surprised last week to see Marshal Semen Budenny canter across the cobbles of Red Square on a chestnut stallion. He took the place of honor on the 33rd anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolution...