Word: blackjacking
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...their computers and entertain themselves. Dialing a local access number from their San Francisco living room, they enter the virtual amusement park of the ImagiNation Network, a combination Las Vegas, Nintendo and Sunday-afternoon social club, where they can compete against fellow computer users in everything from bridge and blackjack to medieval role-playing fantasies...
...think it's wonderful that that didn't happen," Petersen says. "Clint is not a young guy anymore, but he is a good actor, and it works." In a bedroom scene with a young female agent, the Eastwood character drops the implements of his trade -- guns, cuffs, a blackjack -- on the floor, and then, when their tryst is interrupted, grouses that he has to put all that stuff back on. Even dressing is a pain for this winded warrior. Audiences seem to love the jokes about what a tired old man he is. Some viewers can empathize; their joints creak...
...locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture on it: notorious!! Working six days a week, his only real diversions are playing golf and spending each Tuesday night playing blackjack and craps at the Splash Casino on the Mississippi over in Tunica County...
...really in trouble. "Cut your loss! Cut your loss!" shouts Houtkin, so I ask the clerk to buy any shares remaining at 38 7/8, which Kidder, Peabody provides. My loss: $1.25 -- or $125 had I been a regular customer. Easy come, easy go. But it sure beats blackjack...
They were free to gamble the chips at games operated by student croupiers, including Blackjack, Clap's Rouet, poker and The Wheel of Fortune. A caricature artist, a D.J. and Bonaparte the Magician also entertained the "gamblers...