Word: canter
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Brooks had the shrewdness and good taste to cast not only Hackman but the excellent, sardonic James Coburn as his buddy and friendly rival. After that, in spiration fails. Pace, so crucial to un dertakings of this kind, is maintained at the approximate speed of a lazy canter. Characters race a piece, dismount, talk things over, get to know each other a little, then start racing again. No one, however, becomes either familiar enough or real enough to make it a matter of much concern who wins the race...
...horse that everyone was focusing on was going through a series of trots and halts. I fumbled through my Ledyard '75 (the official name of the trials) handbook: move number 14, "serpentine three loops, the first and third true canter, the second counter-canter." Counter-canter, I thought sort of a ring to it, but what does it mean...
CHUL Representative; Lowell House Women's Group; R-H Women's Canter; Junior Day Committee; Vice President, Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Harvard Dramatic Club...
...charmed and instructed large audiences with his intentionally maladroit preparation of elegant food, claret-nipping and well-staged cocky capers. After a three-year sabbatical from television -caused by a near-fatal driving accident-Graham Kerr (rhymes with rare) is back on the tube, this time at a canter. Now, skipping foie gras, fondue and farce, Kerr has a basic, economy-oriented series of five-minute segments called Take Kerr, on view daily throughout Canada and 55 U.S. cities, that concentrates on such dishes as-well, would you believe cabbage surprise...
...shade more punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song Copper Kettle, as well as a brisk canter down that paean to a restless heart, Gotta Travel...