Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rail. Suddenly there was no hole. Another jockey abruptly cut over in front of him, and Turcotte had to rein in to keep from bumping into the horse ahead. Shut off with no place to go, he finished third behind Lucky Debonair. Ordinarily, he might have screamed foul. But in the Derby, by tradition, there is no such thing as a foul. Turcotte, 23, stalked into the Jockeys' room and snarled: "O.K. O.K. I learned a lesson out there today...
...right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their duty: they thought about it for 15 min. before they disallowed the claim. Richer by $12,810, his 10% cut of the winner's purse, Jockey Turcotte cheerfully admitted: "I really closed the gate on that other horse...
Those who like their entertainment well-slicked with Hollywood grease with find the documentary technique irritating. Characters stammer, tangle lines; the photographer zooms in for close-ups with all the subtlety of a TV camera chasing a foul ball into the bleachers; nothing climatic, or scary, or terribly funny ever happens. Me, I thought the method, endlessly exciting--if only as a harbinger of low-budget honesty to come. (The distributors insist on classing their films with David and Lisa. It's much, much better...
With the score tied 0-0, DeBolt flew out to lead off the bottom of the tenth inning. Army's Gene Atkinson then blasted a triple to right field and Bob Fazen lofted a foul behind first base. Harvard's Joe O'Donnell, running hard, took the ball with his back to the plate and hesitated as Atkinson broke for home. O'Donnell's throw bounded in front of Crimson catcher Gary Miller and Atkinson scored...
...that the fair was foul. Last year's 27 million admissions were more than any fair anywhere has drawn in the same period of time. But this was about 10 million fewer than Bossman Moses had projected. There had been plenty of grumbles. The price tags were higher, for exhibitors and fairgoers alike, than anyone seemed to have counted on, the queues for the most popular shows were almost unbearably long, the transportation system seemed to have been devised by a committee of leprechauns, the so-called Amusement Area was notably unamusing, and everything snapped shut...