Word: harleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harley pleads for relief...
DIED. Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, versatile British character actress whose career lasted 70 sparkling years on the London and Broadway boards; in London. "Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful," said the poet Rupert Brooke of Nesbitt at 24. Photographed by George Bernard Shaw, directed by the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker, she began as an ingenue and ended in elegant dowager parts, most notably in the original My Fair Lady and the 1980-81 touring revival, which was her final appearance. "I haven't been known as a great actress," she said then. "But I've been...
...return year after year to sit in the same seats and keep careful score as the cars flash by, but they are of a totally different breed. People who sit in the stands wear imitation Penske racing team windbreakers and "Five for Foyt" buttons. Infielders wear "God rides a Harley" T-shirts and buttons which plead, "Show Us Your Tits...
...infield is for men. Black-leathered motorcycle riders, general hell raisers and frat boys down for a look at the fun all stake out their separate claim Turn One is the "Snake Pit," the motorcycle mecca, Harley Heaven. The bikers get drunk, get crazy, get naked, get sick, and get beat up for the amusement of corporate executives sitting in the luxury $30.000 boxes across the track. Turns Two and Three are slightly less populated but boast a steady level of determined merrymaking...
...street name-speedballing-and said that the dose would have killed Belushi even if he had been less paunchy and dissipated. The comedian's death had its public aftermath in the East as well. Actor Dan Aykroyd led the funeral cortege on Martha's Vineyard astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and later eulogized his friend and co-star before 1,000 mourners at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine...