Word: horseman
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...first, and horses only showed. But in England, from Charles II to Elizabeth II, the sovereign has been a patron of the turf (two of the exhibition's paintings came from the Royal Collection), and the commissioning of portraits was once almost as much a part of a horseman's way of life as racing or breeding or hunting. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the golden age of such art, painter after painter recorded England's placid world of privilege, where the horses often seemed to outrank the people. But of all the painters, none...
...earlier Giono novel, The Horseman on the Roof (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), showed how young Angelo had lived through a cholera epidemic and learned how theatrically men often behave in the face of death. What he still does not know, for all his experience, is that he is the hand-picked tool of some shrewd leftist Italian conspirators-political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named...
Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...
...owns almost 50% of his show, makes about a million a year out of TV alone, not to mention oil wells, motels, ranches and the use of his name on merchandise. As an actor, Robertson can hardly say heck with his hands tied, but he is probably the best horseman in television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while...
...imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that all his life things have been spoon-fed to him, including education. He is an excellent horseman, a good swimmer, and very good at table tennis. He smokes moderately and drinks little. I think he has a good capacity for alcohol, but as he is the crown prince, it is perhaps just as well that he does not drink too much...