Word: crapshoots
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...often fly hundreds of miles only to find a bird that cannot be officially listed. Last winter Marsh and other top birders went to Charleston, S.C., to see a rare bird, said to be a gray-headed gull but that could be ruled a hybrid. "It's always a crapshoot," says Paul Sykes, a Georgia ornithologist. "The bird can also leave just before you get there. That's why we try to get there as quickly...
...just a movie. No government will topple, no arms treaty will be aborted at the reception of this novelettish romance about a guy and a gal, together five years, who go on separate flings one Las Vegas Independence Day. But with the fate of Zoetrope Studios riding on this crapshoot, it may be difficult for audiences and critics to pay attention to what is on the screen. So imagine that you are in Radio City Music Hall-not in 1982, with all attendant fanfare, but in, say, 1941, when moviegoing was a habit and not an event-cozying yourself into...
...last entry into the cultural crapshoot, hopes to have a pay-TV system ready sometime in 1983, at a cost of something like $13.95 a month to a potential 360,000 subscribers. PBS, which stands for Public Broadcasting System and not, as critics joke, Poor, Beleaguered and Subsidized, is trying to construct an alliance that would include its 280 member stations and such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera and the Detroit Symphony. Though nothing is definite, its programming presumably would be along the lines of its present Great Performances series...
...Propaganda, lies the same quandary--namely, who are you out for--yourself or the guy sitting next to you on the train? We all talk a good game, but generally the answer's going to be found in the first person. Not always, though. It's a regular crapshoot, and that's what makes life unpredictable. It depends a lot whether it's sunny and whether you've talked to your lover lately and whether you have five bucks to get a beer. On some days, sociobiology can go to hell, and you end up being a regular State Farm...
...chronicles the lives of three country girls, Antonina, Liudmilla and Katerina--all of whom are living in Moscow. Russia's version of Las Vegas, or maybe Marin County, a center of power where anything can happen. Not surprisingly, these honest but low-rent outsiders have dreams of playing this crapshoot for keeps--they want to marry and be able to live the Big Life for good. Antonina is shy and not terribly ambitious. A country house, a car, a nice hubby and fresh vegetables are all she really wants; and not surprisingly, she gets these fairly easily and becomes something...