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...which he has been bucked. One of the smallest on the tour, he may not intimidate. But riders can't solve his bucking patterns. Owner Jerry Nelson bought the top bull of '05 for $15,000. He just sold a 50% stake for $500,000. Gets stronger and grumpier with age. Talk to him in the pen, and he could throw a rider off. Fairly friendly when not competing. He kicks so high it often looks as if he will topple over. A sweetie at times; in the pit he is "the baddest bastard in the world," his owner says...
...street level, this lull means Ali is grumpier than usual because taking home poor tips guarantees a regular ear bashing from his wife. In a wider context, however, it's even more serious: luxury hotels across the country?a legacy of the Israeli-Jordanian peace accords of 1994 and the subsequent joint tourism projects undertaken a few years before the start of the second intifadeh?are nearly empty, and the tourist sites deserted. Any passing traveler can currently walk into a five-star property and pick up a room fit for King Abdullah II himself for less than...
...sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring in six more films (plus 1971's "Kotch," in which Lemmon directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination), a string that ended with the hits "Grumpy Old Men" and "Grumpier Old Men" and the tragically stale finale to the relationship, "The Odd Couple...
...much grumpier...
...obscure American author" Henry Bech. Bech at Bay (Knopf; 241 pages; $23) displays the same mordantly comic look at the literary life that enlivened Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living...