Next Saturday, when millions of worldwide fans raise their mint juleps
in a salute to the 139th Kentucky Derby and what novelist John Steinbeck
called "a race, an emotion, a turbulence, an explosion — one of the
most beautiful and violent and satisfying things I have ever
experienced," there will be no disagreement with Nash's other Run for
the Roses lesson. The best part of the Derby, she says, is that
"anything can change at the drop of a (big and flouncy) hat."
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