Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mellowed Steve McQueen, lowering himself onto a snorting Brahma bull called Sunshine. The rodeo announcer tells us some basic facts: Jr. was a two-year bull-riding champion, now nearing 40, a bit past his prime, Sunshine has never been ridden for the full 8 seconds time. The gate to the pen is thrown open, clowns dressed in baggy checked pants and vests and red fright wigs lure the bull out and get him jumping. Bonner holds on to the rope knot as if his gloves were glued to it, but his ass is thrown off the bull's hump...
...Bobby demands 30% of the gate receipts and goes into hiding in New York City...
...high school hockey and Boston's seamier wrestling shows.) The Garden has bad acoustics, bad atmosphere, a consistent tendency to trap smoke, exposed rafters, and uncomfortable chairs. It also has more seats than most promoters can handle. Which is why there is an alert group standing by the press gate on Monday evening. Because on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the Rolling Stones will fill the cavern with people, mostly young...
This is the first time I've ever found this gate in less than twenty minutes. We're meeting here to discuss preliminaries. The roughly 25 of us are Don Law's personal security force for both shows. Our purpose is to handle security problems quickly, to avoid reaching the crisis point where the police are required. For the Stones, the emphasis is mind over matter; we may not be big, but we're smart...
After much travail and travel (by bus) I arrived in Cambridge, passed thru the sacred gate. (Open ye the gate that the righteous nation, etc.) into the old yard. Incidentally--I am an unworthy member of the famous class of 1910. The old yard did look familiar. My old room in Hollis I was locked. This was on Wednesday, June 14. All the dormitories seemed to be locked so the so called "rest rooms" were unavailable. For an octogenarian, this was a problem...