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...Arab as Faceless Horde. Beau Geste, remade countless times, is the paradigm of a cowboys-and-Indians version of the Middle East, with the French Foreign Legion and other colonials standing in for the cavalry and Arabs on horseback providing the Indians...
...bookstores are receiving copies of The Crossing (Knopf; 426 pages; $23), the centerpiece in a trilogy that began with Horses. The hero of that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same spare terrain, this time just before World War II. Violence, raw land, unlettered people, love, loss and a throat-slit dog have something to do with the new narrative; or you could say it is about that mean crossing from child to man, told as cleanly...
...fully realize they are receiving them is as old as the subliminal spots for popcorn and soda that advertisers flashed on movie screens in the 1950s. More recently, for instance, mtv blended commercials for a Pizza Hut delivery service with its regular programming by showing pizzas arriving by horseback or out of the ocean for its video jockeys...
...wildlife departments broke and officials susceptible to bribes. Amid this collapse of enforcement, "the poacher owns the taiga," says Steven Galster, who monitors conservation efforts from Vladivostok for Britain's Tiger Trust. Not content with staking out areas frequented by the cats, some hunters stalk the Amur tiger on horseback with the help of dogs...
...ineffective. (Although I do love your discovery of what it was Sarah had to hide, and why she felt the need to shroud herself in feminism: "I learned that what Sarah hadn't talked about all those years was her parents' Fifth Avenue apartment, the house in Southampton, the horseback-riding lessons she loved as a child. She hadn't talked about the check her parents sent her every month." Besides being so witty, it shows that you are not afraid of your privileged background or your mother's connections in the publishing world...