Word: racetrack
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...disgustingly responsible, always trying to impress his elders. The draft letter he wrote from Oxford after his enlistment problems were over looks like a bid for the ROTC man's respect. Sometimes Bill could be more adult than adults: when his mother, a free spirit who still loves the racetrack, a kind of Arkie Auntie Mame, took him to nightclubs to listen to jazz, he was offended by the smoke and the drinking...
...underfunded and ill-organized campaign as it struggles to transform New Hampshire hoopla into a full-throated national crusade. But the where-am-I-going question is also an apt shorthand for the unpredictable Democratic race itself, a bizarre contest that has made political pundits look as reliable as racetrack touts...
...years old and wearing my Cub Scout uniform when we were packed ! onto a train in San Jose," recalls California Democratic Congressman Norman Mineta. "People had to just padlock and walk away from their businesses -- they lost millions. After six months in a barracks at the Santa Anita Racetrack, we were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyo. We arrived in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, five of us children in our California clothes. When we got to our tar-paper barracks, we found sand coming in through the walls, around the windows, up through the floor...
...favorite person in the world is my dad and he's not very exciting. He likes to fall asleep in front of the TV, which is just fine by me. He and I like to go bowling or to the racetrack on weekends and then go out for pizza. Sometimes he brings me a chocolate chip cookie when he comes home from work. He's also probably the best dad in the world...
...most scalding episode is the third, on agents. It is hard to know which is more unsettling: the caught-in-the-act scenes of oily agents coddling clients over lunch and at the racetrack, or their considered explanations to the camera of what they do for a living. Ed Limato, who represents such stars as Mel Gibson and Richard Gere, talks about the joys of occasionally handling a newcomer, like actor James Wilder, whom he can teach "how to dress, who's important for him to know, who's not important for him to know." Another agent discusses the value...