Word: veldts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ribot, the barrel-chested, four-year-old Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot...
This would-be satire, by an ex-adman turned novelist, is set in the political outer space of 1960. The book's hero-heel is Blade Reade, a middle-aging boy genius who tries to keep his ulcer quiet and his three telephones busy. Blade paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay...
Bland, boyish and 42, Bacon lives in London, vacations in Riviera gambling halls. Among his pet subjects in the past were visceral creatures squatting on table tops, elephants in the veldt, misty male nudes and bloody-fanged dogs, all glazed with horror. Critical reaction to Bacon's art has been a rather alarmed "Splendid!" Wrote London Critic Eric Newton: "Mr. Bacon contrives to be both unforgettable and repellent . . . [This] requires genius -an unhappy, desperate kind of genius...
...follow its own nose into 3-D. They had to be led by a dog." And Bwana Devil-which may prove to be the most important motion picture produced in Hollywood since The Jazz Singer introduced sound in 1927-was indeed a dog. The script, a sort of veldt opera about how two lions interfered with the building of a railroad in Africa, was so bad that at the Los Angeles première last November, nobody noticed that the stereography was worse...
...times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident: "This is South Africa's last chance to remain a white man's country. Our aim is to safeguard the purity of the white race." His special strength lay on the veldt, among the Afrikaans-speaking farmers whose fathers had conquered the blacks only to see their early Boer Republic snuffed out by British imperialism. Egged on by predikants (ministers) of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalists made gory predictions of Mau Mau-style massacres to come, of "Godfearing white girls" forced...