Word: horsemen
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...furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped to look at Paolo's work in two weeks, and a Texas millionaire was so impressed that he offered to sponsor an exhibit in Dallas...
...Britain's rugged Cumberland Hills where Peel's "View Halloo!" wakened the fox from his lair in the early 19th century, a newer type of sport, spurred by austerity, has become the rage: hound trailing, where yelping hounds, without horsemen, follow a man-made spoor over hill & dale. The deep-chested foxhounds are descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional...
...screenplay is not dishing up primer politics and flabby moralizing (the unlettered bandit is made to mouth such sentiments as: "I don't want to be the conscience of the world"), Viva Zapata! is good, muscular horse opera. Director Elia Kazan has filled it with vigorous action-horsemen charging, ammunition trains being dynamited and peons fighting. Striking sequence: President Francisco Madero being shot down by the military in the glare of automobile headlights while a siren drowns out his cries...
...ridiculous," replied Dr. Javier Romero, anthropologist at Mexico's National Museum. "True, Cortés' legs were slightly bowed, as are those of most habitual horsemen, but it is impossible to determine from the skull whether the man was balding, whiskered, cross-eyed and humpbacked...
...coach, says that he really learned what modern football was all about on Oct. 25, 1924, a day of massive frustration. Charlie, then a fullback, spent that afternoon backing up the line of a good Princeton team pitted against Knute Rockne's celebrated Four Horsemen. Notre Dame won, 12-0, and it was probably a merciful score...