Word: equestrianism
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After months of recovering from an attempt on his life that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in 1998, at the posh Jadriyah Equestrian Club, he used high-powered binoculars to survey the crowd of friends and family from a platform high above the guests. He saw something he liked, recalls his former aide Adib Shabaan, who helped arrange the party. Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father...
...palace's original main entrance atop the bastion, 11 m above street level, Austrian Hans Hollein's design incorporated an elevator and escalator to carry an expected 500,000 visitors annually to the top, and a huge titanium wing-shaped roof projecting from behind the famous equestrian statue of Archduke Albrecht out over the street below. Although not yet in place, the wing will provide a visual link between the two levels as well as a bold, easily identifiable symbol of the union of old and new that defines the museum. The museum's shop, a chic, spacious room with...
...pursuing an eclectic mix of athletics. His father, Jeffrey Fried, was a three-time All-Ivy High Jumper and former school record holder at University of Pennsylvania. He also owned the now-defunct Macon Whoppee, a minor-league hockey team. His sister Susie is an aspiring Olympian in equestrian, and his uncle Neil was a professional body builder...
...Qusay does. Over the past decade, the short, pudgy and mustachioed Qusay quietly consolidated his authority in Iraq, all the while keeping his personal life largely out of the spotlight. He went to law school, married the daughter of a war hero and produced two children. He reputedly likes equestrian sports and keeps his peccadilloes discreet...
...15th and early 16th centuries were full of astonishing performers on paper. But not even contemporaries like Michelangelo were able to exceed, or regularly rival, him as a master of the kind of expressive and descriptive line that one sees in such drawings of his as the studies for equestrian sculpture or in his astounding anatomical analyses of human bone and muscle structure--though some of them, of course, were artists with very different aims...