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Coming into last Thursday's Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, the compact, brown three-year-old with the white star in the middle of his forehead had won eight races in a row. He had blasted the field by eleven lengths in the Flamingo Stakes in February and had gone off at odds of 1 to 20 in the Florida Derby, which he won waltzing...
...only surprises come from men who turn out to be less evil than you expected. Down in Florida, where even now in the fading calendar days of winter it is so hot it will turn your mind to mush, political reporters are tramping through the condos, seaquariums, alligator farms, flamingo parks, houseboat harbors, trailer parks and drive-in churches looking for clues to George's appeal in the South. Who understands it best...
...ndez. 253 pages. Taplinger. $29.95. Tucked away in a corner of Spain, southwest of Seville, is the Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour cannot compare with a real excursion; on the other hand...
...albums, and included all his best-known compositions--"Kitty's Back," "Spirit in the Night," "Born to Run," "Jungleland," "Thunder Road," and of course, "Rosalita," the song that may have the highest level of potential energy in the history of rock music. The only new song he played was "Flamingo," about a girl all the boys on his block used to watch walk down the street every day. They watched her pass by every day for two years, all wanting to ask her name, or ask her out, but none of them ever got up the nerve. Then she moved...
...Mahesh Yogi in the French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...