Word: meadowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark also flew down to The Meadow, the southern Virginia farm where the champion was foaled three years ago and where he took his first tentative steps...
...twelve, bought his first race horse in 1957-that is, as soon as he was financially able-now he owns a stable of six. He once competed against Mrs. Tweedy, but his best horse lost by a head to Cicada, the famous mare of The Meadow...
...like a big bull running against a bunch of kids," one trainer says. "He's the biggest colt I've ever trained," says Lucien Laurin, "and maybe the best looking." "I call him 'Sexy,' " says Penny Tweedy, the proprietress of Meadow Stables. Fans have responded with enthusiasm, wildly cheering every victory, lustily booing him in defeat...
...miniature. Commissioned by rajahs, Moguls and well-off merchants, bound in albums and luxuriously scrutinized, these tiny images were as important in the East -from the 16th century onward-as panel painting in the West. The spring exhibition at Manhattan's Asia House is "A Flower from Every Meadow," a selection of 86 Indian paintings ranging in date from about 1520 to 1900. Chosen and elegantly catalogued by Art Historian Stuart Carey Welch, the 86 miniatures from American collections constitute one of the year's more delectable shows. The word Mogul has come, for us, to signify gross...
Saris. It was an art with no dark corners. The most extreme emotion that miniaturists normally allowed their figures was the decorative loneliness of palace ladies waiting for their lovers, as in the late 16th century Deccan painting of Girls in a Wood. Pattern is all: gold-spangled meadow and oddly scal loped red rocks; the delicate twist of tree trunks echoing the borders of the girls' saris. Indeed one of the pleasures of Indian miniatures lies in how nature is formalized while losing none of its vitality. In that flattened space, each shape presses...