Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country sherrif who has little desire to contribute to the immoral badgering of a man whom he respects in a more atavistic than human way, but he is too much a part of the oppression to remove himself from it. Matthau's commentary as he watches the same dog take a leak on the same fire hydrant day after day is perhaps the high point of the film. Gena Rowlands is Douglas's consort, and is strong and convincing in a small role. Channel 3, unfortunately...
...race which happens ten times nightly at Wonderland in Revere; a race that sends hundreds of people home mumbling that the "rabbit" had been slowed down of sped up; a race that brings thousands of people off their seats yelling at the top of their lungs for a dog that runs as fast as their bigger counterparts--the horses...
...Dog racing has captured the hearts of Boston gamblers. Every night at Wonderland, the dogs bring working class people, rich people, young people and old people to the track. They pore over the racing program, comparing times, how the dog "likes his position" (i.e. what lane the dog starts in), and carefully watching the huge scoreboard to keep up with the wildly fluctuating odds...
...holiday swelled the crowd and the humidity had gone down, leaving a nice breeze. Dog racing attracts a cross section of Boston's ethnic elements and if you can manage to get into talking with the bettors, you can learn something about the area in which we go to school...
...this respect, dog racing is sad. It's difficult to argue with human nature: people will continue to gamble as they continued to drink some 50 years ago. But like its offspring--the lottery--dog racing takes money from the poor instead of taking the rich. And if you think sports doesn't contain the lessons of life, keep the economics of dog racing in mind...