Word: canter
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...coated, exclusive affair; it has acquired much of the West's dungaree-clad casualness. The better-heeled riders maintain their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from Connecticut to California...
Indignant, he leaves the bar. His plane is fleeing down the runway. Pursuing it at a sprightly canter, he is eked out by Hyperion in the Fifth...
Mosque & Motel. One morning the Shah, trailed by a procession of aides and photographers, walked from the embassy to Washington's mosque ("It is the tradition," the Shah explained, "to approach a mosque on foot"). Another morning, he got up early for a canter along the bridle paths of Rock Creek Park. After days of partying, the Shah and his retinue (14 persons altogether) packed their bags (95 pieces, totaling 5,000 Ibs.) and took off for San Francisco. This week Their Majesties will drive to Los Angeles, stopping overnight in a motel, arriving in time for Christmas...
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...