Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author like an old sports coat. Indeed, he used it ten years ago in Powers of Attorney. The characters are distinctly and intentionally minor. This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums from a rival firm. Backed...
...local environment. The movie did much more; it's perhaps the only gangster story with social roots intact. The story is about the low-level gangster's underworld of Boston--of petty cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game--and of the dreams that keep them going, the Florida vacation or the hot piece of ass. It's an honest movie, true clean through to the crooked tale it tells...
...Florida is dog racing's capital, its White House is the West Flagler Kennel Club in Miami. That neon and plastic Churchill Downs for dogs attracted more than a million fans last season, outdrawing the Dolphins or Hialeah. Many of the breed improvers now come and go without ever seeing a live dog. Instead, they sit in sybaritic comfort in "The Great Racing Theater," a new, cavernous 5,000-seat trackside auditorium where bettors can watch the tote board and the race on a 40-ft. closed-circuit TV screen. It is more convenient to put down late bets...
...more affluent, like Businessman José Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6-track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show. "You never know," says Martinez. "You can have the best dog in the race and sometimes...
...familiar trappings of sport, though, dog racing does have a darker side. The dogs are trained as killers. To reinforce the greyhounds' hunting instinct-the breed was first imported from England and Ireland to kill jack rabbits that were destroying crops -their training usually concentrates on the pursuit and killing of real rabbits. These bloody sessions, called coursings, are still run publicly in Abilene, Kans., every year. In Florida, however, they will be banned for training or public racing at the end of this year. The reason: one bloodthirsty promoter put live white rabbits-Easter bunnies-on his track...