Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...
...understand the book business these days," Mr. Lynch said, "the first three chapters will be about his sex life...
...Harold Ernst Gallery at 161 Newbury is an absolute must, especially now until May 7 with its show of watercolors by Frederick Lynch. Lynch paints wonderful, witty caricatures of portly men and buxom women dressed in atrocious color combinations. The most remarkable aspect of the works is their brilliant, vibrant colors, a far cry from the misty, delicate landscapes so popular among watercolor artists...
...Lynch describes himself as a landscape painter. In a statement prepared by the gallery, Lynch says he is "changing images offered up to me by the American public into figures as landscape, landscape as figures, clothing as landscapes...
...Lynch emphasizes habits, not individuals. He rarely shows the faces of his figures, preferring to leave them white or cut them off with the frame. He describes his choice of themes as including "role, sex and status identification, conspicuous consumption, contemporary dress habits and the use of facades and masquerade...