Word: peacocking
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...hardly that at home. His two trophies from the French Arc de Triomphe wins are the centerpieces on twin dining-room tables. The walls of the bright, airy living room are covered with photos of Sangster, his vivacious second wife Susan (former wife of onetime Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock) and, of course, horses. Out across the 90 acres of manicured lawn and woods, however, the real thing is missing. He keeps none there. "Don't like riding," mumbles the great breeder. "Don't know...
...earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that there was a time when the head of the house didn't simply carve the roast but allayed a pheasant, reared a goose, minced a plover, dismembered a hen or disfigured a peacock...
...Shah are excellent," wrote U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms in 1974. But Helms also advised that embassy officials take "great care" in talking to dissidents lest the Shah be offended. U.S. intelligence thus remained fragmentary, crippling U.S. efforts to under stand the growing opposition that would eventually topple the Peacock Throne...
...Pennsylvania creek." His involvement in the intricacies of fly fishing is cheerfully expert, so much so that some observations may seem impenetrable to outsiders: "I began to take a few fish on a small Fore-and-Aft fly with one grizzly hackle at each end of the hook and peacock herl wrapped in between," writes Carter. "Later I tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work...
...less interesting than the oeuvre they garnish. Kitaj's recent drawings, particularly his pastels, are of marvelous density. The firm boundary line, probing and circumscribing, pays its respects to Degas, as does the broken, emphatic texture of the pastel, sometimes built up to a thick coat of peacock-hued dust. There is nothing theoretical about these drawings, no "as if-such as one might expect from an artist turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes...