Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stare into the camera when they should be ignoring it. Italia, a billiard-bald extra known as "Miss Bald America," sidles up to Charles in mid-song, plops down behind her and stares fetchingly into the camera. Cut. Hausman, neck veins bulging, yells at her; she leaves, muttering, "I bet he's bald under that cap." Hausman reshoots the scene successfully-until a young man strides in front of the camera in a pair of bright blue Adidas sneakers. Cut. They made Adidas in 1968, but flower kids didn't wear them. "We researched everything carefully," says Lester...
...dogs just now," Rocco said. "I only have 40 in my kennels, but I've had as many as 300." He said "liquidation" had forced him to reduce his number, refusing to elaborate. He spends most of his evenings at the track, and though he used to bet, does not anymore because he "lost too many bucks...
...asked the older couple next to me how they decided which dogs to bet...
...Cuddy, "coursing" (dog racing) and wagering on greyhounds have been a genteel tradition he has followed since age ten, when he bet a nickel on dogs with his schoolmates. Bookmaking is legal in Ireland, and gambling has fewer of the immoral overtones that it does in this country. When asked if he thought corruption existed in American dog racing, Cuddy replied, "There are crooked people in every profession. It's wrong to categorize dog racing as being any more dishonest than another. People who say that are full of codswallop...
...Tigers seemed a sure bet to clinch the match by taking at least one of the doubles matches, and they made good on that bet in dramatic fashion when they concluded three close straight-set victories within the space of a minute...