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Jack Swanson, a big, easy-talking fellow, was in his 20s, breaking horses up in Oregon, when he got a box of paints for Christmas. As a boy he'd drawn horses. Now he took a horse out into the corral, tied it to a post and began to paint. And felt sweat break out on his forehead. "I had never had the experience of being so excited." So he enrolled in art school in Oakland, taking with him a couple of his horses. He lasted less than a term. "They'd have all these pots...
...seconds). Then Amigo S came up lame, and Swanson found an art school at Carmel, Calif. near the ocean, so he could exercise him in salt water. Mornings, he broke horses to make a living-"I'd have half a dozen of them lined up in the corral, already saddled, and I'd ride them one after another"-and in the afternoons he would paint. In the evenings he would work at building his house on a ranch he was buying near Carmel. It was 20 years of this routine before art paid the bills...
...militarism, reinstituted draft registration, Reagan's record suggests he might use the new recruits to fight for some new "noble cause." Where Carter has learned from four years of mixed success in foreign affairs, Reagan might misplace his three-by-five cards and stumble into the O.K. Corral with guns blazing...
Smith forward Martha Gray received a penalty kick opportunity, but Harvard goaltender Dana Warren thwarted the attempt, tipping the ball up and off of the crossbar. The ball took a crazy bounce down in front and before Warren could corral it. Gray booted it past her, cutting the Crimson's lead...
Miller's corral full of voices is spacious enough to accommodate Johnson's personal weaknesses. But the superficial treatment of the Bobby Baker scandal, the relationship between the Johnsons' business interests and the FCC and the Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory...