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...lines at the betting windows are long in both cities. The Hartford fronton had originally hoped for a wagering handle of $30 million during the seven-month season. The take topped that figure after 90 of 229 dates. Hartford aficionado, Engineer Frank Mirmina, likes the action on the court and on the tote board. Said Mirmina: "It's like watching an N.F.L. game that isn't decided until the final 20 seconds. You're not out of it until it's over...
...Eddie Chamberlain, perhaps K-House football's greatest and longest aficionado (for 30 years, he says), has his own theories for the strength of K-House football...
...private eye known simply as Spenser, are filled with echoes of the masters. But Parker is really not a pirate. Instead, he resembles film makers like Jean-Luc Godard, who pay homage to great directors of the past with little vignettes so blatantly similar in style that no aficionado could miss or fail to savor them...
...lesbians and transvestites, sold out in its first few days in Soviet bookstores and is currently the hottest-selling item on the Moscow black market, where curious Communists are shelling out more than 50 times the book's official 87? purchase price for a copy. Says one female aficionado: "It's fascinating to read what before I'd only guessed about." But another reader, more sure of her skills, sniffs: "Someone showed me a copy and I don't need...
Nicholson has never taken any pains to conceal two of his greatest pleasures-women and dope-from public view, perhaps partly because he knows they will add a little darkening to his deliberately scuffed, slightly sinister popular image. He has been a cannabis aficionado for the past 15 years, sampled LSD, and taken some snorts of cocaine. None of that is very unusual, especially in high-living Hollywood circles. Jack evidently can handle it; several friends speak of his basically controlled, "non-addictive personality." His long-standing romantic relationships (with Model Mimi Machu, with Singer Michelle Phillips) ended stormily, with...