Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great example is Stubbs' prosaically titled Hambletonian, Rubbing Down, 1800. Hambletonian, winner of both the St. Leger and the Doncaster Gold Cup in 1796, belonged 3 to a rich and deep-gambling young baronet named Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. In 1799 Vane-Tempest put him up against Diamond, another star horse, for a purse of 3,000 guineas. (At the time, a farmer's laborer might have made the equivalent of five guineas a year.) The match drew the biggest crowd and the heaviest side-betting ever seen at Newmarket, and amid scenes of hysterical excitement Hambletonian...
With his private validity, Bailey is a forerunner of Kennedy's later outsider heroes: the romantic Legs Diamond roaring confidently through the '20s, gun in hand; Billy Phelan conquering Albany with bowling ball and pool cue; and Phelan's father, Francis, a tormented bum stripped of everything except his will to endure...
...only was Ironweed published to high praise but interest revived in Kennedy's previous novels, Billy Phelan and Legs, a fictional treatment of the life of Jack ("Legs") Diamond...
...progress is Quinn's Book, another novel in the Albany cycle. Kennedy is increasing his nonwriting stake in the city as well. He recently bought the downtown rooming house where Legs Diamond was shot dead...
Under high pressure, heated graphite turns to diamond within miliseconds, but this is the first time a diamond has been even partially melted...