Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, less was at stake for Boggs. He could afford to ride the pines with his .357 average, and watch Mattingly try to make up seven points...
...second day. The colts that have been caught and saddled only once in their lives will be ridden today. Ridden, with no bridle for control. Ray explains, "Getting people to ride their colts with nothing on the horse's head keeps a human humble. It forbids them from trying to control the horse, and the horse feels that. Boy, does he feel it. And that's the beginning of trust...
...last day of the clinic we all ride in a lush pasture not far from where a billowing cloud on the Grand Teton looks like a pillar of smoke. We make mistakes. My roan colt gets scared because I'm scared, and he tries to run off. Les' chestnut mare slips and falls on her because Les has been too demanding. Chuck's mule and Elaine's colt pull away because they've been too imprecise, too lenient. "The horse is a mirror. When I see your horse, I see you too," Ray reminds...
...stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music. As George Bernard Shaw observed, "Die Walkure is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon or even a House of Commons debate...
Other observers suggest Paley may not be all that disappointed. CBS's current troubles, after all, have given him an opportunity to ride to the rescue once more and prove himself the indispensable man. The recent events, according to some, have invigorated him. "He didn't like the way he was pushed aside," says an intimate. "It took him forever to get rid of Wyman, and now he's enjoying it." For an aging broadcast legend, it is a sweet last hurrah...