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...BLACK STALLION Directed by Carroll Ballard...
...voice," he later explained, "but not tin his] intelligence." He made the first of his more than 200 screen appearances in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black musical, played Jim in Huckleberry Finn two years later and had his last role in the newly released The Black Stallion...
Obviously topless but discreetly shaded in the mist, a modern Lady Godiva clad only in blue jeans rides a stallion beside the roiling sea. A bare-chested man jumps on the horse with her and together they ride off, silhouetted in the sunset. Though all three TV networks rejected this sexy commercial for Jordache jeans, it made a debut on three independent New York City stations last week. Similar print ads featuring tame if teasing topless couples wearing only Jordache jeans have blossomed in women's magazines and the Sunday New York Times. The Times at first refused...
...strategy worked. I started getting calls from buyers." Now Jordache is shipping about 200,000 pairs of jeans a month, or $3.5 million worth at wholesale. Aimed primarily at the disco set, Jordache jeans are selling in 3,000 stores in many parts of the country. Like the stallion, Jordache is running away with business...
...stallion like Bold Ruler is more accessible for breeding than the sires of a generation ago. Before the second World War, a few wealthy racing families bred, foaled, raced and retired to stud much of the finest American bloodstock. "Today," says Lucien Laurin, trainer of Secretariat, "it's easier to get better breeding because it's more of an open breeding market." The reason: the proliferation of commercial breeders and the widespread syndication of top stallions. The owners of Spectacular Bid, as well as Seattle Slew, certainly are not members of racing's Establishment...