Word: horsewoman
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...SECTION DEDICATED to women in luxury, where do you fit a slim 48-year-old English horsewoman whose role (can it even be called a job?) is to waft into Paris and inspire Karl Lagerfeld for a few weeks before voyaging back, as if through time, to a farmhouse in the rugged English county of Shropshire? Amanda Harlech has been called a muse?a term she doesn't much care for, perhaps because it seems so passive, focused mainly on her magnificent jade-colored eyes, storm-black hair and delicate frame that is perfect to carry clothes. She is also...
...anything, Hall has emerged from the flames a finer writer. Begun well before the blaze, his new novel Love Without Hope (Picador; 269 pages) carries the spirit of regeneration that comes after loss. Here the landscape of "hearty little horsewoman" Lorna Shoddy is also transfigured by fire. "A bell of silence clapped itself down over the blackened trees and turf," writes Hall, "her world curling at the edges and noiselessly crepitating, little spits of silence dodging among the ashes." Stripped of her beloved Australian Waler horses, and without the support of family, Mrs. Shoddy is reduced, by all appearances...
...Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from a singularly intelligent elephant and learns what to do when the band plays Stars and Stripes Forever: it's circus code for disaster, so run like hell...
...when Athina was just 3 years old. So her decision to take on the foundation surprised some observers. Athina has already shown signs of her mother's chutzpah and a willingness to go her own way. She dropped out of high school at 17, but became a talented horsewoman and linguist. She renounced the Onassis name at the urging of her father, Thierry Roussel, at the age of 13, telling judges that she felt "great aversion" to all things Greek, but she later shook off Roussel's influence. A French playboy who married and then divorced Christina, Roussel used...
...Despite her polished performance in front of a microphone, Walters is still very much a 12-year-old girl. Asked about her future aspirations, she says she hopes one day to be an Olympic horsewoman. "But you have to have a lot of money for that," she says. "So I have to either become a famous singer or actress or something, or marry rich...