Word: binion
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West Coast feminists have generally sided with CREW. Even the A.C.L.U. of Southern California supported the California law. In a Supreme Court case, the national A.C.L.U. pre-empts any position taken by an affiliate, so Gayle Binion, the regional executive director, joined CREW...
...David Binion '84, chairman of the student committee that helped plan the talk, said yesterday he was interested in sponsoring a talk on infectious disease because of the recent sensationalism over herpes and AIDS...
...fame and his investments, as remorseless now as he was then, the kind of character that John Wayne was fond of portraying-true grit without forgiveness, to be admired, but from a safe distance." Moss had come to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, at Binion's Horse shoe Casino. Binion's is the no-limit joint, famous for accepting a $777,000 bet in 1980 from a man who walked in with a suitcase full of cash, rolled the dice once, won and vanished into the desert with two suitcases full of cash...
...games. There players could start with more than a scrawny $10,000 and could raise the stakes as high as they liked. The card sense that poker requires is not especially rarefied; the limit chiselers at the other Vegas casinos know as much about probabilities as the sportsmen at Binion's. What distinguishes the heavyweights is that broke or flush, they can function at financial altitudes that paralyze everyone else. "The money freezes you up, and you become tight-weak," one contestant in formed Alvarez, describing his introduction to the major leagues. His colleagues agree. "If money is your...
...author describes such rogues, they live their resolutely unreal lives with a style that touches gallantry. His account is as close to Binion's as a prudent soul will venture, but Alvarez knows both poker and the writing of English, and even if he does call bettors "punters," this field guide is the reader's equivalent of an inside straight. -By John Skow