Word: gallopping
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...subtle pleasure of watching President Reagan tiptoe through the social land mines. Will Ferraro be a "gal," a "girl," a "lady"? There should be wonderful national bull sessions too: heated, sophomoric, serious. What is this "compassion factor" anyway? As if Elizabeth I were a dove. Sense and nonsense will gallop tandem through the land, and polls will be taken by the hour...
...distressing horse melodrama mysterious enough for Dick Francis, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winner Swale collapsed suddenly last week. Just eight days after his emphatic four-length victory at Belmont-the 1½-mile test of three-year-old champions-Swale returned from an ordinary gallop, reared up, tumbled over and died...
...salvage yard at Los Alamos is open from noon to 4 p.m. on Thursdays. The regulars start arriving early, staking out their positions at the head of the line, which by noon stretches across the parking lot. When the door opens, they trot forward, gaining speed as they gallop through the warehouse, swerve around the cash register and slide past a World War II-vintage sign of a cutout policeman holding up a warning DO NOT RUN OR PUSH. One by one they pop out into the yard, their shirts and hats festooned with bits of masking tape made into...
...came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat. But by the time he had won the Derby, the Preakness and-by the length of a football field-the Belmont Stakes, that was forgotten. Racing had gone 25 years between Triple Crowns, making the feat seem mystical. Then, at a gallop, came Triple Crown Winners Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978), and other demonstrably splendid horses of the '70s: Spectacular Bid, Alydar, Ruffian...
...accidents, chiefly bad ones. That movies are still being made, some even made well, certainly defies the illogic that goes into their creation. Goldman ends his guided tour of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land on an up note, predicting that a horde of talented new graduates from film schools will gallop West and rescue the studios from them selves. Whether they will be allowed to write anything but sequels to Porky 's remains an open question. An altogether different scenario suggests itself: DISSOLVE TO AMBITIOUS YOUNG WRITER seated before TV console, his face bathed in flickering greenish light. Suddenly he smacks...