Word: bets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scouting Report Gerald Levin was faulted for buying cable systems, but that proved a smart bet. Only thing missing is a major network, and co-chair Ted Turner lusts after NBC. But Levin, happy with the WB and cable nets, isn't eager to overpay...
...Could the Fed chairmen of the future have the world's easiest job? Some might argue that we are already in that golden age, though neither Sinai nor Alan Greenspan himself are willing to bet the farm on it. Sinai doesn't call the Internet a "wild card" for nothing; much about its effects on the economy have yet to be played out. "Frankly, we don't know enough about it at this point," he says. "How important is the Internet to the economy? All I can say is it's huge...
...something more interesting was going on: the bit was significant in part because it wasn't aimed at the ears of whites. Blacks have long complained about being ignored by the larger community, unheard, unseen. Rock's riff aired on HBO, not BET, but it was about black folks, for black folks. He didn't care what whites thought or whether they were even listening. Suddenly whites were the ones rendered invisible, inaudible...
...bet against her. This kid will steal anything--a boyfriend, clothes, jewels--to get to the top. And don't bet against Sugar Town either. It's the kind of movie Robert Altman might make if he ODed on Elavil--a multicharacter comedy about the Los Angeles rock scene. Make that the trashed rock scene. For it's mostly about people who once had it, then lost it, but would like to find it again...
Emmy and her little brother Max (and with names like those, you can bet their folks are PBS donors) find a magic dragon scale and are whisked off to Dragon Land, where they encounter a gaggle of warm, goofy reptilian friends to whom they are just as strange as the monsters are to them. Besides fantasy and rich, hand-painted scenery, this animated series offers an encouraging message--don't be afraid of new situations--to a young audience exploring its own realm of freakish curiosities...