Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that one, and so was Sylvan Place, and while they both raced unimpressively it's only fair to chalk up the track condition as a possible factor. Master Derby takes after his father (Dust Commander, 1970 Derby winner on an off track) in his love for the mud. But wet or dry, he is sharp and ready for this weekend's action...
...piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences in Britain and elsewhere for twelve years with songs such as Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and I'm a Gnu, until the pair split in 1966 to pursue separate careers...
...heavily on the point lest the fun go out of the watching; but the reason both films work so well is that Lester is satirizing not merely that outdated movie form, the heavily romanticized historical spectacle, but history itself. When Lester's people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even stand up, the reason is not that the director finds pratfalls irresistible. Instead, each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause...
...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...
...nation flocked to Salisbury. Battalions of observers armed with telescopes, cameras dwarfed by huge telephoto lenses, sketch pads and binoculars took up daily vigils. They lined the sea wall along one side of an estuary of the Merrimack River and the state beach opposite, eyes trained on the mud flats below...