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...horse was his chief image of social harmony: order on four legs. No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf. They are, so to speak, the temples of Stubbs' Utopia, a place adjacent to Jonathan Swift's imaginary country of the Houyhnhnms, those sagacious and moralizing horses...
...Queen's racing manager, says that she is "an absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
...lotta: Bo Derek and Dolly--bodacious tata. This cage holds a singer, her name is Grace Jones Her case is a sad one, she plays with hormones. Now, only in People are such contrasts--Miss Piggy eats, while Mother Theresa fasts... Divine and Bella Abzug pose and groom, (Have they ever been seen in the same room? I'm not saying that they are one and the same. But, when two things differ only in name...
...weeks ago Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, 40, was saying that "any day now" he would marry longtime Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27, who is seven months pregnant. Then last week the groom-to-be, or not-to-be, made that a question again. "Marriage?" Jagger asked reporters, while vacationing with his love on Barbados. "Definitely not. It gives me claustrophobia...
...Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only...