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...last semifinal race Saturday Doug Domokos, the Wheelie King, came show boating onto the track and bet track builder John Savitski $500 he could ride around it on one wheel. He did it but it was an awful lot like watching Meadow-lark Lemmon run around with a waterbucket full of confetti...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...performance conveys little of the book's vicarious terrors. The film depends for its humor on a sequence of listless sight gags: Alda sprawling on his face during calisthenics; Alda jamming his fingers on the snap from the center; Alda lobbing a wobbly pass into a conveniently placed waterbucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Requiem for a Quarterback | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Being highly elated over the victory, and, being but a mere spectator, I could think of nothing better to do than to steal the Stanford waterbucket-which I did. SIEGFRIED F. LINDSTROM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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