Word: dice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...
Soon afterward, French police had a look at their baggage and found 83 pairs of mismarked, loaded and topped dice, all counterfeited to bear the Monte Carlo mark, with a bill for the manufacture of same from a firm in Los Angeles. They arrested the trio...
...Ralph Shaker, 40-were of a more practical stripe. Resolved to beat the American-type craps table at the old Casino, they arrived in Monaco, dropped $35,000 at the table, but returned to the U.S. with a handful of wax impressions of the Casino's dice. A month later, they went back armed for victory...
...craps table. Their plan was simple, and for a while it worked fine. Subtly substituting their own obedient ivories for the Casino's more capricious cubes as occasion demanded, the three picked up 2,300,000 francs ($6,570) between them. Then something went wrong; the Casino dice that Aggie had temporarily removed from the contest got stuck in his sleeve, and he had to pass the croupier a loaded pair. A cherubic, bow-tied observer with the look of a house detective tipped the nod to the croupier, who promptly raked in the dice, and the three Californians...
...Grey Flannel Suit is a long movie and one worth seeing. Its subject, the great Madison Avenue of high-pressure public relations, is tricky and almost impossible to describe without loading the dice. Passing up most of the opportunities for cute, crude humor, the movie makes a skillful attempt to give a straight treatment to Madison Avenue and its progeny...