Word: studding
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...Berry voiced her hope that black actresses might soon enjoy equal opportunity for black actresses. Ironically, this equity that would have been easier to achieve in Hollywood's so-called Golden (read: Caucasian) Age, when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood...
Kevin Conley's Stud: Adventures in Breeding (Bloomsbury; 224 pages; $24.95) isn't much concerned with races, but it's plenty racy. It probably contains more explicit depictions of the sex act than Fanny Hill. None of these acts involve humans, however, except in an officiating capacity. Conley's subject is Kentucky's exclusive breeding sheds. Because the Jockey Club--which regulates the $34 billion Thoroughbred industry--forbids artificial insemination, Thoroughbreds are made the old-fashioned way. It's a micromanaged, ritualized affair, from the guy (or gal) who lifts up the mare's tail to the fellow who guides...
...bizarreness of high- end horse prostitution, the book leaves you feeling a little jaded. Like the participants in the loveless couplings he describes, Conley doesn't invest a lot of emotion in his subject. Line for line, Conley is twice the writer Squires is, but in the end Stud lacks that mystical, elusive variable that separates a merely good horse from a true champion: heart. --By Lev Grossman
...love him for his nimble skating and fluid style. We love him for his diamond stud and long hair. We love him for these things you can see and sense...