Word: stags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when prosecutors pushed the case against David Hayle in Los Angeles, they hit a stag that opponents hope could bring the whole system down...
...keep up suspense and excitement and to encourage more people to attend, the names of the bride and groom were not announced before the ceremony. Only after the stag party and bridal shower did the organizers of the $240 gals inform the bride and groom privately of their respective roles. The Stanford Daily reported recently...
Reading your article on Artist Edwin Landseer [Nov. 16] reminded me of the story about his famous painting The Monarch of the Glen. As a guest of Queen Victoria, Landseer went deerstalking with a gillie from Balmoral. After following a five-pointer stag for over four hours, they had it trapped in a corrie. At that moment Landseer quickly laid down his gun, pulled out a pad and pencil, and started sketching. The proud animal became the famous "monarch...
...became a court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...
...glens of the Highlands-connects him to northern European romanticism, in particular to Caspar David Friedrich. When he let his sense of nature as a ground of elemental conflict speak directly, uninflected by sentiment, he produced one of the great images of his century, The Challenge, 1844: a stag bellowing defiance at its swimming enemy in the glacial boneyard of a mountain landscape. Such a painting makes all the dewy-eyed spaniels bearable, if not worthwhile...