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...though there's no casino on board, it's also a floating crap game. The stakes are high: Disney will launch a second vessel, the Wonder, next June, and Eisner grandly hopes for a 10- or 12-ship fleet, sailing from Florida, California and the Mediterranean, within the next decade. He's betting that the cruise industry, which fills its cabins with discounted fares, can accommodate a competitor that charges 20% higher than the norm (starting at $860 for a three-day cruise, including airfare, compared with $648 on the Royal Caribbean line's Nordic Empress). The ship is heavily...
...story, and she's sticking with it. By the best accounts, she is willing to testify to some kind of sexual contact between herself and the President, but is either unable or unwilling to provide independent counsel Kenneth Starr with a key to the Big Casino: evidence that the President or his aides did something that amounts to obstruction of justice. Sources close to Lewinsky say there is no indication her attitude on the obstruction issue has softened in recent weeks. That's the main reason Starr has been unable to reach an immunity deal with Lewinsky's new lawyers...
...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...
...feeding quarters into a slot machine and scarfing the $3.99 all-you-can-eat buffets--but, hey, you're in ancient Rome! MAX BAER JR., who played Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies, thinks Reno gamblers will enjoy the rags-to-riches leitmotiv of a $120 million Hillbillies-theme casino and hotel. His plans include Granny's Shotgun Wedding Chapel, Jethro's All You Ken Et Buffet and a giant oil derrick. City officials object to the idea...
...those anthems of middle-aged self-assertion. He did it his way. He can make it anywhere. He picks himself up and gets back in the race--that's life, or Sinatra's blowhard version of it anyway. It is the artfully projected world view of a casino entertainer, a glorified greeter, whose job it was to make old guys with bum tickers and second wives feel good about themselves...