Word: equestrianism
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FLORENCE'S PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA can boast that it is the greatest open-air sculpture museum in the world. There, with a commanding view, stands the massive equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Past the Fountain of Neptune is the copy of Michelangelo's great David. Still on public view are Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Donatello's Judith and Holoferaes...
...formed a unit by crossing the axis of the Champs-Elysées, leading to Versailles, with a secondary axis delineated by the Rue Royale, which leads to the classic Church of the Madeleine. He marked the boundaries with a moat, placed small buildings in each corner, set an equestrian statue of the King in the center (the fountains and the Obelisk of Luxor were added later, in imitation of Rome's St. Peter...
Born. To Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly Brinker, 22, blonde ex-Tennis Queen (1953 championships in Australia, France, England and the U.S.), and Gorman Brinker, 25, member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic equestrian team and San Diego State College student: a girl their first child. Name: Cynthia Ann. Weight...
...family" again. The decapitated: Co-Producer Larry Puck (whose bride, Soprano Marion Marlowe, was fired last spring), Conductor Jerry Bresler, Announcer George Bryan (a ten-year employee), Singer Lu Ann Simms (about to return from maternity leave). At the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Equestrian Godfrey rasped: "If I can't hire and fire people to suit myself, I'm going to quit...
...ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...