Word: casablanca
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...opening reels of Casablanca, the black-and-white camera pans an urgent city: refugees, politicians and aspirants of all kinds, characters who have reached Morocco by hook or by crook with the eventual goal of making it big in the free world. There are people of all shapes and sizes, accents, backgrounds, ambitions, with little in common except the fact of place, an appreciation of circumstance and a fair amount of airbrushing...
...Like Casablanca, we all have our clubs, our backgrounds, our lines of allegiance. Instead of Rick's, we have Tommy's; instead of Sam, a jukebox. Can we all get along? The answer that has been suggested, implemented and debated most hotly is randomization: Mix people up enough and they'll be forced to abandon their stolid alliances and acknowledge common ground...
...MATT: Do I have a social life? I go out. We go out to bars. We don't go out to Boston that much. Casablanca is probably my favorite...
...Should its earnings be taxed? 17 Did a smithy's job 18 One Day at ___ 19 ___ Nostra 21 One of the Bobbseys 22 Mr. Saturday ___ (Crystal flick) 25 Big Apple hoops tourney 28 "Neato!" 29 Any Given Sunday director 31 Jason's vessel 34 "___ to worry!" 36 Ingrid in Casablanca 37 53-Across creator David 39 Laser's "knife" 41 "My mama done ___ me... " 42 Need a bath badly 44 Merkel of moviedom 47 Engrossed with 49 Chechen President ___ Maskhadov (Bush didn't know his name either) 51 She backs Bush 53 The ___ (TV hit set in New Jersey...
...Unfortunately for Casablanca, that is precisely what may happen...