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...these five days an untouched colt will accept being caught, haltered, led, saddled, ridden, and will have learned the rudiments of the sliding stop, the spinning turn and a smooth backup in an atmosphere so tranquil and trusting, one has to look hard to see how these lessons were learned. Accused of performing miracles, drugging his horses and hypnotizing them, Ray does quite the opposite. He uses almost no prods or external devices at all -- except for his orange flag, which he shakes at the colt's head to make him turn -- no snubbing post or hobbles. He explains...
...town of Trinidad, 250 miles to the northwest, paid little heed. But the next day Trinidad Mayor Pedro Alvarez was summoned to the local Bolivian air force base for some unsettling news. The gringos are coming, he was informed; the base would need another well. Since that day, the tranquil cattle-farming community of Trinidad (pop. 40,000), capital of Bolivia's northeastern Beni region, has not been the same. "Our humble town," complains Alvarez, "is becoming internationally known as a cocaine center." Trinidad has, willy- nilly, become home to the U.S. 193rd Infantry Brigade. Transported from Panama two weeks...
Last week, when the Socialists handily won a second term in office, the scene was almost tranquil. Fewer than 200 supporters gathered outside the same election headquarters in the Palace Hotel, and only one, a woman clutching a fistful of red roses, shouted the old political war cry, "Felipe, Felipe! Felipe Presidente!" The postelection calm was briefly broken Wednesday when a bomb exploded in checked luggage at the Madrid terminal of El Al, the Israeli airline, injuring 13 people, two of them seriously...
Travesties is fairly solid as house productions go. The story is based upon the imaginary life experiences of a senile diplomat, specifically focusing on the year 1917 when Lenin the revolutionary, Tzara the artist of anti-art, and Joyce the self-exiled Irish writer all roved the streets of tranquil Zurich while Europe pounded out its own life blood. The humorous "what ifs" of their possible meetings or interactions are fully exploited by the witty, yet, erudite Stoppard script...
When Walker shows up, the pretty production assistant who has been assigned to keep him and his bad influence away from Lu Anne complains about the surrounding dullness: "This is all very tame stuff, if you ask me. Outside of the usual drunks. It's so tranquil and businesslike it's almost boring." Walker remarks, "That could change overnight." But before he sets his catastrophe in motion, Stone displays an intriguing cast of behind-the-screen characters. The director, Walter Drogue Jr., is the son of another director, "a man from the mists of legend, a contemporary of Walsh...