Word: paris
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what it was to be not just a German but a European, an inhabitant of the Berlin-Naples-Pari s triangle. "Beckmann has been made ill," he sardonically remarked in 1924, "by his indestructible preference for the defective invention called Life...
...public and ridden roughshod over those who wondered whether he was all washed up. And a good thing it is too, for Cauthen was in danger of becoming just another Trivial Pursuit question. Remember young Stevie? In 1977 the scrawny 5-ft. 1-in. 17-year-old dazzled the pari-mutuel bettors with an uncanny number of winners at Aqueduct on his way to earning a world-record $6 million in purses, the most sensational apprentice-riding performance in racing history...