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Some of the riders stood on their horses, while some could not stand at all. Some did flips off their mounts and into the mud, and nothing broke, a testament to the malleability of young bones. A middle-aged Texan named Dennis Jerkins broke his hand, however. The hand was already in a cast. "The way I broke it the first time," said Jerkins, "was my executive privilege to bang it against my desk. I'm a grain and sod-grass hauler. The way I broke it the second time was I was trying...
...lunettes, depicting the ancestors of Christ--until now the least visible part of Michelangelo's immense scheme. The years 1985 to 1988 will be spent on the ceiling and spandrels--the figures of the giant nudes, the prophets and the sibyls, and the narrative of the Old Testament. The last four years are reserved for The Last Judgment. In all, it will have taken the Vatican's small team of restorers (headed by the chief of its painting- restoration laboratory, Gianluigi Colalucci) longer to clean the 13,000 sq. ft. of fresco than it took Michelangelo to paint...
...strictly ceremonial capacity, as President of the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev's main competitor for the leadership, the Sunday Times said, was still Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61. Yet another rumor circulating in the corridors of Whitehall had it that the late Defense Minister Ustinov had left a last will and testament urging the Politburo to choose Gorbachev as party leader...
...back the clock." Jacob contended that blacks, whose gains peaked in the 1970s, "have been sliding back" ever since. Example: black unemployment nationally remained at 16%, more than double that of whites. Wrote Jacob: "That Black America is not worse off today than it is, is more of a testament to its traditional ability to survive than to anything else...
...Ahab with a happy ending. MacLachlan, 25, grows impressively in the role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments when Annis is onscreen, Dune finds the emotional center that has eluded it in its parade...