Word: gallop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard Stengel
...months to reach me. When it arrived it was diluted of all sharpness, and my own staff bounced it back again and again for greater precision-thereby serving the bureau chiefs purposes better than my own. Alternatively, the machinery may permit a strategically placed official's hobbyhorse to gallop through, eliciting an innocent nod from a Secretary unfamiliar with all the code words and implications...
...Fortune, a forced, slapsticking situational comedy with buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that Nicholson cannot direct Nicholson
Quincy posted points on the scoreboard first when Maddox glided in front of a SoHo receiver, intercepted a Joe Auteri pass, and returned the ball 40 yards for a touchdown. Minutes later, in the second quarter, Maddox--at halfback--capped off a 53-yard drive on a touchdown gallop from the five. Having dominated play for the entire first half, Q-World walked off the gridiron with a 14-0 lead...
...Quincy denizens might be right, if yesterday's action is any indication. Mighty Kirkland wasn't supposed to have any trouble with Currier, but the difference in the game was only a two-point conversion scored by running back Jeff Reilly, who had already contributed a touchdown gallop from the five-yard line...