Word: rodeoing
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...tend to drive pickups or subcompacts, not Beemers and Rollses. They wear jeans and baseball caps and speak in accents redolent of Oklahoma or Texas, Ohio or New York, Mexico or El Salvador, Vietnam or Korea. Few Angelenos have ever seen a movie star. Many have never even seen Rodeo Drive, much less shopped there. Black, white, brown and yellow, they have created little communities that frequently resemble the places they left behind. In the poorest of those communities, the streets may not be as mean as those in, say, the South Bronx, but they are every bit as tough...
...fall into anarchy and go up in flames. What was needed instead was geography lessons showing that rioting was confined to a relatively small portion of a vast metropolis and that violent incidents outside that area were random, not the beginning of a concentrated march to the sea via Rodeo Drive...
...living as a Broadway chorus girl, and when she turned to country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...
Baseball players call them "Annies." To riders on the rodeo circuit, they are "buckle bunnies." To most other athletes, they are just "the wannabes" or "the girls." You'll find them hanging out anywhere they might catch an off-duty sports hero's eye and fancy: at Los Angeles' private Forum Club, at jock-oriented watering holes like Mickey Mantle's in Manhattan or Bigsby's in Chicago, in the lobbies of hotels where teams on the road check in. To the athletes who care to indulge them, and many do, these readily available groupies offer pro sport's ultimate...
...came to Leverett for a panel discussion and left with a copy of The Ad to put in my file. I had to beg my parents not to write a letter to The Crimson complaining that The Ad omitted some of my elementary school accomplishments (blue ribbon, kindergarten bike rodeo...). And people still stop me on the street to tell me they're sorry I didn't win the Marshall...