Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest ($25,000 to $125,000 per share) horse-investment deals for years. Says she: "It's smart to pool your resources with a lot of other people. You can get in on eight or nine horses for the price of one." Every small-timer remembers that Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew was bought by comparative newcomers for $17,500 and syndicated for $12 million. The Thoroughbred market of today, however, resembles the publishing industry: the blockbusters are fine, while the middling books are in trouble. The Wall Street Journal recently checked out 26 horse-investing partnerships formed...
...mezzo-piano his voice takes on an unpleasant ring. And he falls to imbuse the King with sufficient intelligence and efficiency. It is strange, too, that a man who has murdered his way to the throne and is hanging onto it for dear life never once appears with a crown on his head. At the end, however, his indulges in a fresh bit of business: instead of being stabbed with Hamlet's poisoned rapier, he tries to seize the weapon and fatally cuts himself in the tussle. Once again, I wish Gwynne and Dotrice had swapped assignments...
...fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...
...miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948). "I love horses," Markey once said, "and I want the best horse to win. As long as he doesn't beat Calumet...
...wondered why Gerry Cooney, a pretender to the crown, and Sylvester Stallone, a heavyweight champion only in the movies, were pictured together. After the Holmes-Cooney bout, I know. Cooney and Stallone are both actors...