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...today's racing business, which is to say the standards of Arabian sheiks, it was an undistinguished lot, though three of the horses belonged to Nelson Bunker Hunt, a man of redoubtable means, and all but nine were trained by Johnny Campo, who saddled Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Pleasant Colony in 1981. That fine spring, Campo became as prominent as his stomach, holding forth on the unsentimental subject of cheap horses, crows as he is wont to call them, in front of Barn 48, which has now burned to the ground...
Whatever it was, it wasn't pleasant for the Wahz...
Farrakhan is indisputedly a Black leader of import. After twenty years of ineffective sentimentalism on the part of the traditional Black leadership, Farrakhan is an original, if not pleasant voice in the Black community...
...plays with his words to create a state of intellectual torment in his readers to make them confront his country's predicament. His artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...
...easy to believe him, for in person Boulez is affable and charming. Of average height, balding, with a pleasant Gallic face, he could pass for a friendly greengrocer in his native Loire region. Yet throughout his career, his work has often been criticized for what some perceive as a fundamental coldness. Boulez resents the charge and defends his musicianship. Recalling the hostile reception he met from the fiercely proprietary Bayreuth musicians before his first Ring, he notes, "When you are attached to contemporary music, immediately they suppose you don't know the classic repertoire. But I think I can study...