Word: horsemen
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...generations of reading romantics, the Legion is inextricably linked with flying clouds of Touareg horsemen, toy-soldier forts in the midst of the Sahara, and nobly born Englishmen hiding their mysterious pasts under assumed names. To career soldiers, the Legion is one of the world's few elite organizations, comparable to the U.S. Marines and Britain's Brigade of Guards. To its own members (over the years the majority have been German or Slav), the Legion is an unparalleled string of battles, from Constantine in 1837 to Sebastopol, Magenta, the Somme, Verdun, Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Cassino, Dienbienphu...
...stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some...
...gelding named Sardar, a trained jumper ideal for the fox hunting that she loves to pursue in the Virginia countryside. At Pakistan's ceremonious Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub admired...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (M-G-M), in the famous silent version of 1921, looks pretty silly today-partly because of the story, a piece of rose-in-the-teeth romanticism by Spain's Vicente Blasco-Ibañez, and partly because of Rudolph Valentino, an actor who expressed passion by bulging his eyeballs and moodily waggling his whipstock. Undaunted, M-G-M decided to risk a remake of Horsemen. With the help of Director Vincente Minnelli (Gigi), eight big-name players (Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul...
...were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like a belly-clenching commercial for stomach pills...