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...puffed onto the Côte d'Azur once a year to promote their wares at the International Film Festival at Cannes. Then they have gone home, leaving behind vast sums of money, countless Cuban cigar butts and occasional trend-setting films-Marty, One Potato Two Potato, Easy Rider. This year the trend was to revolution. "Right now," explained Producer Irwin Winkler, "we live in a time when revolution is a very salable commodity...
...Willa Gather, but the lines could be used without revision to describe some of her own small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas Hardy. Another flawless short novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), describes the descent of a consciousness toward death-and its reluctant return to life -with mesmeric power...
There is a certain hostility between the grooms and the jockeys. "The rider don't make the race," Irving said. "The horse makes the rider, the trainer, and the owner. The jocks do exactly what the trainer says. They get all the glory; we get all the crap...
JOCKEYS think the rider is always crucial to race. But Dick DeStasio, a trainer, disagrees. "Most of the time it's the trainer who counts," he said. "He rides the horses all the time and knows how they run. But there's that time when only a good rider can win. That kind of rider has good communication with the horse. That's the one intangible thing that you can't give him. We call it 'hands.' It means horse run for you, and they like...
...Harvard Ecology Coalition is planning to "reclaim" Harvard Square this Friday for the pedestrian and bicycle rider-without official clearance from the Cambridge city government...