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...HORSEMAN RIDING BY by R. F. Delderfield. 1,151 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Although their ranks are thinning out, there are those who yearn for the fat novel overflowing with characters, spanning decades instead of days or hours. Right now, the best bargain of this sort is A Horseman Riding By, by the British playwright and novelist R. F. Delderfield. It is long enough (half a million words) to last a careful reader from now till the Fourth of July, and it is so transparently simple that neither its ideas nor ambiguities will startle anyone. Since it runs a course from the Boer War to Dunkirk and sticks to a small rural valley...
...Army base live a proud major (Marlon Brando) and his vain wife (Elizabeth Taylor). An inept husband and worse horseman, Brando is continually left at the post while Taylor goes riding with her lover (Brian Keith). Keith's wife (Julie Harris) is a housebound psychotic who he insists is normal until Taylor throws him one of the more memorable lines of her or anyone else's film career: "She cut off her nipples with a pair of garden shears-you call that normal? Garden shears...
...belt or an armpit holster under his coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting. Above all, he loves speed, and at the wheel of his silver Porsche 911 is usually a winner in Jordanian sports-car events. To the horror of his security men, he is also addicted to motorcycle...
...expert horseman and huntsman, Edward learned to fly, to surf-and to swing, which in those days was called belonging to the "gay" set. In the whirling world of the '20s, whatever the prince wore became instant fashion: he popularized plus fours, decorative woolen sweaters, midnight blue tailcoats, tartan jackets and oversized knots in neckties. Aged 41 when he became king, he had long been the most eligible British bachelor since King Arthur. A near-worshiping public chanted the popular song: "I know a girl who knows a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales...