Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jockey Ted Atkinson knew Capot's peculiarities like a book: "If some other horse cuts out a dizzy pace, he is bull-headed enough to want to run him down. If you take a hold on him, trying to save something for the end, he gets ornery and won't run at all." At the start of last week's long Belmont Stakes, toughest test of U.S. racing's "Triple Crown," Atkinson hustled Capot into the lead and prayed that nobody would press...
...observed," said he, "a number of superficially contented men and women . . . and I maintain they are dangerous. Personally, I am glad to say there are a lot of things today with which I am not contented ... I am not contented with the road system in Newbury . . . nor do I like the control of mosquitoes ... I am not contented with the Boston & Maine Railroad . . . nor do I like the way poison ivy keeps growing near my house...
Beatrice d'Este was 16 when the future Duke of Milan married her (in 1491), and probably not much older when Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait for the Duke, his patron. Innocent, fresh and direct, the portrait was like a summing up of everything that the complex, secretive, worldly-wise Old Master himself was not. It made a highlight in the comprehensive show of Leonardo and his circle at Los Angeles County Museum last week...
...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
...spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...