Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959, and worked for almost anyone who would hire him. In 1976 Barrera developed Bold Forbes, a sprinter notoriously weak at long distances, into the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont. He was the leading trainer in both 1976 and 1977. Last year his horses earned $2.7 mil lion, and this year...
...nervous performer, he is now terrified by audiences and can only play when in a sort of in spired trance. He fears criticism, to the point that he records only less-known romantic works and his own transcriptions of symphonic and operatic works. "Musicians have always disapproved of my style as too emotional, too idiosyncratic," he says. "So now I prefer to record works where no one can compare me to anyone else. I want to do only what I want...
...York-to-Los Angeles airline rather than a cruise ship. Legs will presumably have lots of them, all belonging to Las Vegas showgirls. Produced by Garry Marshall, who is also the man behind ABC's Laverne and Shirley, it will probably have its polished, if dim, comedic style...
...batsmen had to contend not only with tough competition from the University of Delaware and St. John's, but also with a barrage of home-style Harvard finals, taken in the comfort of the local Holiday...
...help maintain the illusion, she lives in a kind of time capsule. Her Hollywood apartment, which she has had since 1932, is still decorated in the style of the '30s, when she was one of the screen's highest-paid performers. A vase of fake white calla lilies stands on a white piano across from a white couch that rests against a mirror set in an off-white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers...