Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second boat opened up with a bad start and proceeded to go up stream from there. And despite flashes of brilliance from the J.V. boat--it moved on a strong Penn eight consistently throughout the race--the crew was equally consistent in its inability to row smoothly, culminating in a boat-halting crab five strokes from the finish line...
Elocutionist, winner of the Arkansas Derby, is another horse who is garnering upset consideration. Trained by E.C. Cashman, Elocutionist also captured the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulf-stream Park, and has the potential to take advantage of a rapid early pace with his late rally tactics...
...patterns of "Orangerie" belie the stasis of the dusky orange metal, seeming to move like the shadows of leaves. Caro's efforts to capture the nature of water produce some of his most interesting work: "the Deluge" transfixes waves and spray, and "Cool Deck" slides and shimmers, a silvery stream. "Early One Morning" the most intriguing piece in the show, is a step farther from nature, but still shows the artist's fascination with a growing creation...
...door of his fashionably appointed den proves to be revolving. Through it stream people whose untidy problems and messy personalities make Simon seem almost a genteel charmer, though his witty ripostes are fashioned from barbed wire. His upstairs lodger, a sociology student, enters to cadge money and denounce Wagner as a fascist. Simon's elder brother, an academic mole, mewls and pules about the disadvantages of not having an Oxford degree...
...rather splendid and barbaric ... the wild mass of twelve hundred bouncing camels of the bodyguard, packed as closely as they could move, the men in every variety of coloured clothes and the camels nearly as brilliant in their trappings. We filled the valley to its banks with our flashing stream." The cleanness of desert warfare was powerful enough as a myth to survive two world wars: the ghosts of Lawrence and his camels did much for the popularity of Rommel, Montgomery and their tanks...