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...spent a lot of time Tuesday in Tomorrowland and Adventureland. I sat by Jack?s side and worked the pedal as he ?steered? our racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels...
...Waltz and Don’t Look Back, but Gimme Shelter is the most historically relevant, the best paced and features the best set list. It’s better than Woodstock, too—it’s its shorter, evil twin, climaxing at the murder-marred Altamont Speedway concert which many have dubbed the event that ended the Sixties. Highlights include a young, comparatively normal-looking Mick Jagger wearing a pi-emblazoned jumpsuit as he struts through “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and a dazzlingly languid “Love in Vain...
...today a Bush Republican. Some drivers have made openly political statements in recent weeks, affirming their support for Bush’s prosecution of the war on terror. Michael Waltrip, for example, caused quite a stir with his post-race comments at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in early March. After finishing third in the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400, Waltrip told the TV cameras “I would like to say, ‘God bless our president. I hope the whole country is behind him and supporting him ... praying for him. And [that] we’re united...
...that if I was going to be thrown from the bike to my grim demise, at least I would have some company. Undoubtedly, Stith and I would have plenty to discuss standing outside of the pearly gates, such as the subtle distinctions between Storrow Drive and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
PRINCETON, N.J.—The 300-mile stretch between Lavietes Pavilion and the home arenas of the Ivy League’s “Killer P’s” has long been a schizophrenic speedway for the Harvard men’s basketball team...