Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...others with similar injuries, he says, "You've got to be patient. You have to listen to doctors and do what they tell you. There's going to be up days and down days, and some times you might think your leg's going to get bigger. But keep thinking about being back...
...others with similar injuries, he says, "You've got to be patient. You have to listen to doctors and do what they tell you. There's going to be up days and down days, and some times you might think your leg's going to get bigger. But keep thinking about being back...
DIED. FOREGO, 27, one of racing's hardiest geldings; by lethal injection after fracturing his right hind leg; in Lexington, Ky. Enormous at 17 hands high, Forego raced like a runaway freight train--and his trainers complained that he carried about as much weight. He won 34 of 57 races, most memorably the 1976 Marlboro Cup. Lugging the top weight of 137 lbs., Forego thundered past Honest Pleasure in a come-from-behind victory, below, that helped earn him his third title as Horse of the Year...
Otto Preminger needed persuading that demure Dorothy could be the heartbreaking Carmen. But there she stands, hands on svelte hips, unleashing a wonderfully womanly laugh and dazzling the hapless Joe (Harry Belafonte) by sitting down and slinging his leg over her shoulder or urging him to dry her toenails: "Blow on 'em, Sugar." Here was an adult sexuality Hollywood had rarely shown. It surfaces again in the French Tamango (1957), where Dandridge--as Aiche, the half-caste slave mistress of captain Curt Jurgens--summons a complex ferocity, connecting with Aiche's hurt as well as her love-hatred...
...when brute force is called for, she's ready. Early in her latest adventure, Shadow Woman (Random House; 350 pages; $22), a thug traps her in an elevator at a Las Vegas casino. She feigns ineffectuality, cringes, then breaks his leg and gouges an eye. As she starts to leave, he grabs her ankle hard (his grip "tightening like the jaws of an animal"), and she says to him, "Think. If you drag me back in there alone with you and your broken leg, are things going to get better for you, or worse?" Sweet reason prevails, and he lets...