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...only decent male the pair encounter is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the detective leading the chase. Mostly they come across a lunatic variety of hunks and lunks. When the men are not sexually objectifying or exploiting the ladies, they are ripping them off. A convenience-store bandit absconds with their getaway money, but not before teaching Thelma the tricks of his trade. "I feel I've got a knack for this," she muses after knocking over her first grocery store...
Pregame camaraderie vanishes as the player-against-player battle for cash prizes gets under way. All contestants start the tournament with 777 "Super" credits per round. Each push or pull of the one-armed bandit is subtracted from the credit meter, and every win is added to the kitty meter. Points are totaled after every round, and the player with the highest score at the end of the tournament wins the top prize of $40,077. Not a bad return on an entry fee of $577 -- a real bargain compared with the $2,000 some other casinos charge for their...
Heading for the finish line, Wickhamhas scored a mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...
...block Souter's nomination if he won't go on the record supporting abortion rights or affirmative action. But pressuring Souter about abortion, as leading pro-choice activist Kate Michelman asked in a statement yesterday, will not defeat the nomination: if anything, it will play right into the bandit's hands...
...this isn't Hollywood, and the ending in actuality could be far from happy. If the Senate botches up the gunfight, or--even worse--walks away, nothing will stand in the way of the bandit's sinister social agenda. And while the blood on movie sets is make believe, the blood and tears shed in this Western could be very real...