Word: greyhounds
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Inside, people of middle age drifting haggardly into dotage huddle around video kiosks with racing results beamed in from horse- and greyhound-tracks worldwide (or cable—one patron watched a Sandra Bullock movie). The tiled floor was littered with discarded ticket stubs, and the multi-story gambling lounge smelled like old cigarettes and old people...
...particularly miserable Saturday evening, FM slogged through 45-degree temperatures and driven rain to the Wonderland Greyhound Park, a sprawling, Bukowskiesque complex that, like most of its patrons, has seen better days...
...animated rendition of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, allowed guys to let down their guards and get a better feel for one another.Though these bus trips may seem fun to anyone who has never experienced a cross-country trip on a Greyhound or a school trip clear across the country, they can get old real quick. Trust me on that. The longer rides make me long for the days when a “road game” meant hopping on a bus for ten minutes to Northeastern’s campus or really “roughing...
...drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city streets with his folding chair, "I was up and off like a greyhound after an electric hare," says Hugh...
...part of Thai culture," says Chaichon Savantrat, whose Good Mixer label has more foreign buyers than Thai, despite being sold mostly in Bangkok. But Senada's Chanita says that 60% of her business is now local, and that number has been growing for the past several years. Greyhound's Bhanu, for his part, has launched more affordable domestic sub-brands. "The marketplace has a lot of potential," says Bhanu. "It's up to the brands to make it happen." It may be happening already...