Word: stablehand
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...addition, say some observers, the commission is looking more and more like a stablehand closing the barn door when the horse is just grazing in the yard. Even though the commission is likely to recommend a cooling-off period, analysts say the industry is already lukewarm at best. The reason: Gambling expansion has slowed in recent years. The public is losing interest, lottery ticket sales are flat for the first time in three decades, and expansion was a nonstarter in several state ballot boxes last November. Even the gambling mecca itself, Las Vegas, is trying to remake itself...
...tickets on Lebón. The cashier did not have the $80,440 payoff those tickets were worth on hand and told the bettor he would have to send to the track's main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face...
...career she calls "mid-Atlantic": she has starred both in English films and with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary for the story." Says she: "As soon as you start covering up, as soon...
...suitably disguised) a verb seldom seen in polite English prose since Lady Chatterley's Lover. In fact, Slobodkin has assimilated himself so completely to the somewhat rancid life of his crewmates that some readers may feel that they have listened to a five-hour monologue by a seafaring stablehand...
...after the foal arrived, lop-eared Leonardo Cedano, 30, a Calero stablehand, became morose. Standing outside a public bar, he bellowed: "People are saying that the baby mule born yesterday is my son." Then he popped a skyrocket into his mouth, touched a lighted cigaret to the fuse. A moment later it exploded. His face and mouth were horribly mutilated. Within half an hour he died...
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