Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectators show up, many of them having traveled long distances for the chance to wheel their cars and campers into the infield, break out the barbecues and beer coolers, and join a kind of high-octane happening. Others pay up to $40 a ticket knowing that they will watch more of an attrition process than a race, that most drivers will never finish the 200 laps, that crackups are virtually certain to occur. The prospect of flaming crashes and shattered bodies and the knowledge that fans are also exposed to risk seem to be part of the allure...
Initials R.B.M.E. is unfairly titled and pompously annotated, but a joy to watch for all that. The initials stand for the first names of the Stuttgart's four leading principals - Richard Cragun, Birgit Keil, Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen. In all justice, the title should include an H., for Heinz Clauss, who brilliantly partners Haydée in a soaringly romantic pas de deux...
...cohorts are also trying to put some new laws on the books. The Corporate Accountability Research Group is drafting legislation to require federal chartering of corporations, a move that Nader thinks would make companies legally accountable to consumers. Nader also has in the works a new outfit called Congress Watch, which he says would be "the largest public interest lobby in the U.S." Starting with a staff of three that will eventually grow to ten, Watch will not only push for legislation on such matters as consumer protection and tax reform but also monitor the performance of individual Congressmen. Watch...
...almost as if Secretariat realizes how short a period he has in the limelight. Unfortunately for people who love to watch a great horse in action, Secretariat's racing career has less than six months to go. Even if he stays sound and keeps improving, as seems likely, he is slated for early retirement no later than November...
...dismantled Richard Nixon in Mark the Glove Boy (1964), only to watch his intended victim move on to even greater heights - or depths as Harris would see it. As a college professor at San Francisco State, Harris might well have absolved himself from responsibility for what he seems to see as his country's race toward madness. But a novelist who sets himself up as a lecturer, instructing foolish readers and characters alike, is in even more trouble than they...