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...competitive horseman. The aging jockey plays a strange sort of polo - a one-on-one contest in which animal and rider become a single figure jousting on a timeless range. Like many equestrians, Kosinski's rider is graceful on horseback; dismounted from his horse, Big Lick, he becomes one more high-plains drifter out for an evening's gratification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Going Is the Goal | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...that there's at least one bright side to this energy mess: the high you experience when at last you succeed in refueling your car. It is like the caveman who knocks over a marauding dinosaur with one blow of his club: you feel as though you could lick the world−momentarily, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Even Harris Rosenblatt, raised with Gold in Brooklyn and now a homogenized bureaucrat, gets in a lick. "I used to be Jewish, you know," says Rosenblatt. "I used to be a hunchback," says Gold. "Isn't it amazing," says Rosenblatt, "how we've both been able to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking About the Unspeakable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...illogical strategies, and a self-indulgent, unrealistic perception of political cause and effect. When the black man went as far as the adoration of his own genitals could carry him, his revolution stopped. A big Afro, a rifle, and a penis in good working order were not enough to lick the white man's world after...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Myths and Movement | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9½-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in 1964, accepted the news with true grit. "I've licked the Big ¶before," he said. "And I'll lick it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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