![]() ![]() No matter whether Mary Stewart is at the top of her form (and she wasn't in her last-This Rough Magic- 1964), or what charming off-the-tourist track spot she uses for a setting, her melodramatic recreations have a homing instinct for the best seller lists. ""It's all so beastly complicated,"" as Vanessa would surely say, but it's also good lighter than air entertainment. ![]() Lewis turns up incognito- and don't forget the Lippizaner horses, where the title comes from (it's the name for one of their fabulous leaps). None are typically seen in modern competitive dressage. They include the capriole, the courbette, the mezair, the croupade and the levade. Van and Tim find and join the burned up circus, where her professional skill is in demand. The airs above the ground or school jumps are a series of higher-level, Haute ecole, classical dressage movements in which the horse leaves the ground. She is running after her husband Lewis, who was last seen in a newsreel clip with a beautiful blonde at an Austrian circus fire when he should have been in Sweden. Soooo.Mary Stewart has taken Vanessa, a young married English veterinarian, to Austria with her seventeen year old cousin Tim, who is running away from his fluffy smother-mother. Horses, like dogs, are the eternal reader favorite animals. Circuses, as the ringmaster always says, are for children of all ages. Austria is the place where the pastries, the Lippizaner horses, and the international intrigues come from. ![]()
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