Word: pasadena
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Irvin G. Henry Pasadena, Calif...
...women on the far side of 45 stand next to each other before the washbasins, excavating makeup from the inside corners of their eyes. Vision restored, they notice they are wearing the same velour jogging suit. The turquoise version is from Pasadena, Calif., the deep pink from Evanston, Ill. Imagine that! Instant sisterhood. Evanston, who is in real estate and relaxes by playing the slots, says, "Have you got one of those rooms with the round bed and the mirror on the ceiling? Just out of curiosity, I asked the bellboy what it would cost me to get some company...
...Yeah," says Pasadena, "I'm married to one of those kind of guys." Pause. "Did you say $100? That seems sort of high." Both women scrub hands blackened from pushing hundreds of coins into slot machines, and then each takes one thin quarter from the paper cup holding her slot-machine supplies and deposits it on the tip plate. An attendant, sweeping together the wreckage of paper products they have left behind, says, "Women don't tip like men. Sometimes I don't take home more than $6 in tips...
...years Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium has attracted huge crowds for New Year's Day gridiron clashes between the likes of Ohio State and Southern Cal. But in the eyes of most of the world, real football came to the Rose Bowl last week, when Olympic soccer teams took the field. A throng of more than 100,000, the largest audience ever for a soccer game in the U.S., gathered to watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds...
...like dying," progressed in one short kilometer to a point where he could admit, "This is more fun than beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward, 69, a bona fide "little old lady from Pasadena," almost overran the escort vehicles with her impatient heel-and-toe style. Back down the road in Louisville, Muhammad Ali had carried his torch too. In his book The Greatest...