Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital at public expense. Instead the guests pulled up in ordinary black sedans, the streets were strewn with confetti rather than flowers, and masses of campesinos stayed home. A cartoon in the daily Excelsior said it all. Spoofing traditional views of the head of state astride his noble steed, the newspaper showed De la Madrid jumping on a horse's skeleton...
Photography posed its own special problems. The flying stork-steed that appears on page 53, designed by Artist Mari Kaestle in foam rubber and feathers, was attached to an especially sturdy metal stand so pregnant Model Lori Coen could perch in perfect security. As for the cover image itself, after gallantly twirling and bouncing through two studio sessions, Jaclyn Smith warned Photographer Raúl Vega-facetiously, of course...
...this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune was kissed, We began the long task of preparing our list...
Mounted on a white steed, Bridegroom Mohammed rode at dawn to the portal of Salama's palace. He was preceded by a caravan of 20 camels laden with trunks of diamonds, emeralds and rubies. If these gifts seemed mere baubles to the bride, it was because her father Sheik Hamdan had given her an entire town with three skyrise apartment buildings, a luxury hotel and 55 shops and boutiques...