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...Marcus, New England regional field representative for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) said the ADA plans to make this race an annual event...
...March 22, when Carter met with high-level advisers at Camp David. They concluded that Americans were losing patience with the stalemate over the 53 hostages and that this was jeopardizing the President's political future. Accordingly, Carter three days later sent a message to Banisadr through Marcus Kaiser, the Swiss charge in Tehran: Unless the Revolutionary Council took custody of the hostages by March 31the day before the Kansas and Wisconsin primariesthe U.S. would impose sanctions on Iran. Soon afterward, the governments of major European nations and Japan sent letters to Banisadr urging that...
...image of the hero on horseback -human intelligence bending brute nature to its command-was central to Renaissance art, and its main antique prototypes were the Marcus Aurelius, an equestrian statue in Pavia called the Re-gisole (long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses...
...Lysippus, the great Greek sculptor of the 4th century B.C. Current opinion puts them much later, in the 2nd century A.D., and considers them Roman, not Greek. If so, the horse at the Met is roughly contemporary with the finest of all Roman equestrian bronzes, the statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol in Rome...
...sculpture, the San Marco horses do not really equal the massive, noble modeling and sheer formal energy of the Marcus Aurelius. The curves of the horse at the Met are almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...