Word: backgammoner
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...Harvard Backgammon Society...
...Learn Backgammon instead and impress your friends and neighbors with a more unconventional talent. The New England Backgammon Club holds weekly meetings and tournaments for all skill levels at the Sheraton Commander Hotel. 16 Garden...
...they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good restaurants and pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings can best be described as haut kitsch: kaleidoscopic lighting, silver vinyl banquettes, tented nooks, twinkly Italian lights, jungles of synthetic plants, Plexiglas floors. Not a few, however, are decorated in notably good taste; and some seem to have been designed by the people who went...
...14th of Ramadan Cafe alongside the square, young men in frayed suits and old men in shabby jellabas sip tea or puff on water pipes, while backgammon counters slap, slap in the background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs...
...people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer of 1994, I was not Marcia Kleks, the gambler's girlfriend. I was a lawyer--an intelligent...