Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siena Polio, the world's oldest horse race,* anything goes. Since the jockeys ride for the honor of the Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...thousand years ago the Vikings of Scandinavia sailed and rowed their great open boats across the seas to Normandy, Iceland, Ireland and America with no protection but that of a huge dragon's head prow. There were no insurance companies then to tell the Vikings that their ships were poor risks, no spoilsports to cry "careful...
Friends pitched in to help Sten chop down sturdy pines. A maritime museum director offered to research the design and an artist went to work carving a dragon's head. By June of last year, after three months' work, Sten's craft, the Lusty Snake, was ready for its maiden voyage-a trip to Tullgarn Castle to congratulate King Gustaf V on his 91st birthday...
...means "forming with color ... At the time of making a picture. I want not to know what I'm doing; a picture should be made with feeling, not with knowing ... A shape can be sad or gay, a line, delirious." William Baziotes, who recently sold a painting called Dragon...