Word: spills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, after taking a nasty spill on the ski slopes: "We British...
...Cauthen is less than an inch taller than he was when he won the Triple Crown, and he weighs only 104. Some have suggested that after Goodman had a heart attack in July, he stopped hustling for good mounts; and that after Cauthen injured his knee in an August spill, he stopped trying so hard to spur them on. Now Laffit Pincay Jr., the rider who replaced Cauthen on Affirmed for the Strub Stakes, wonders if The Kid is not "trying too hard...
...teeter devastatingly on the brink of an explosion. But in his all-out roles--in Silent Running, Black Sunday, Coming Home-- Dern makes an art of modern crack-up: shaking, sobbing, barnstorming, often hitting false notes, losing control, making us fear that both the actor and the character will spill over simultaneously, capturing the peculiar self-consciousness of a real-life breakdown, where neither the "audience" nor the "actor" knows where the pain ends and the performance begins...
...lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy or his mother or wife or his sad younger brother or Cousin Hugh, whose recent ragbag memoirs spill prematurely a lot of what seem to be real family beans. The beans, after all, are everyone's family beans, only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have...
...Werner Erhard, has materialized on stage. The roar of welcome goes on as he lays claim to the spotlight, hoisting himself onto a director's chair, a gray-flanneled leg tucked underneath him. The clamor trails off only when his words and pale gaze begin to spill across the crowd, conveying the improbable intimacy that seems to be the gift of all magnetic evangelists. It is the sound, not the content that mesmerizes, and before long he is saying, "Nothing is going to enlighten you. What will enlighten you is nothing...