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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Amazing Video Game Boom | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of The Grownups | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Riding the Abortion Circuit | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Hair-Raising Ride | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Brigette M. Roberts, | Title: U.C. Lucky Night' Draws 150 | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

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