Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently people began to bet on a broader range of numbers. The patterns no longer held and the system began to fail. Bernard said...
...graduate students saw number picking patterns develop and bet on the numbers selected infrequently. The state pays a higher return on unpopular winning numbers...
Rodgers and Hart's 1940 show Pal Joey about a handsome rodent of a gigolo was their best work and one of the greatest scores written for the theater--witty, melodic and cynical. It's never revived. Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration has been done (one would bet) in most high-school auditoriums, gymnasiums and summer-stock tents in America. It's been done by Guy Lombardo on water and by Fred Zinnemann in Cinemascope. On any given night, its score can be heard in a solid minority of the nation's shower stalls. I myself appeared...
...intelligence is going to wonder about Hite's methodology, an issue she has minimized in innumerable interviews. Most of the questionnaires were distributed through NOW, Oui, Mademoiselle, Ms. and The Village Voice--which obviously slants the sampling toward certain income levels, races and frames of mind. (I would bet no female Ford Motor Co. factory worker ever saw the questionnaires.) This is undeniably a flaw, but not of the magnitude that some reviews have made...
...been home dying from cancer, and I could not have cared less." G.A. Member Myron R. of New York City actually stole money from his four-year-old to go to the track. One possessed gambler even admits to digging up and selling coffins to get cash for a bet...