Word: charioteer
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...Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender sex has been completely shattered in modern times by the blossoming of female athletes in numerous sports. But up to this time, with the minor exceptions of mixed doubles in tennis and tiddlywinks, women have generally been restricted to competing against each other. There is great...
...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that's all behind him now." . . . Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling...
...experts cleaned off the two centuries of grime that covered it, the Tiepolo bore the sinister title of Time Carrying Off Beauty. But on close examination, museum officials decided, as museum officials will, that some earlier expert had goofed. True enough, the old bearded figure with his wings, his chariot and scythe, was certainly Time; and even Beauty, bejeweled and almost nude, seemed to be true to tradition. But why, asked the museum, did the whole painting revolve around the woman's right leg, with the foot resting on a globe? She herself points at the leg; Cupid puts...
Their "Ride in the Chariot" is well harmonized and lively, and "Hector the Garbage Collector" retains all his old charm. "Tobacco Is A Dirty Weed" comes off less cleanly, but I still like...