Word: croupiers
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...billion by GM, and they are being asked to trade that IOU for a 10% equity stake. The UAW's VEBA trust, on the other hand, is trading in a $10.2 billion IOU and getting a 39% equity stake. If these were poker chips, you could say the croupier has arbitrarily decided to value bondholders' chips at 37 cents apiece and the UAW's VEBA chips at $3.90 each...
...contribution to the Swipe-It culture. They've had some luck, no doubt, but Howard and Costello have taken taxing and spending to audacious new levels, pushed away the poor's support struts, and launched their chosen people into hyper-debt. Right now, as they would behave toward a croupier during a winning streak, Australians feel like they want to buy these two politicians a drink - or at least to stay at their table while they deal the winning cards...
...demimonde. One night, for no reason that director Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
...incarnate characters. Among the things Hodges and Preston have stripped out of their film are all the usual explanations. What drove Will away from his successful criminal past? What does Charlotte Rampling's enigmatic restaurateur see in him? Instead, what we have to entertain us is style. As with Croupier, Hodges is not in any hurry to get to the point of his scenes, which are often quite underpopulated. He wants us to see rooms and streets as his characters do, in a slightly disoriented...
...first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The 23-year-old landed a piece in Judge three months later, and he was soon on the staff. His earliest contribution was a series on a croupier, utterly impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language...