Word: diced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where their beards and unkempt heads of hair frightened the pigeons. In the Cotswolds, hunting horns sounded over green hills as the fox fled before hounds and huntsmen. And in London, which now rivals Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, players were five deep at the dice and roulette tables...
...born in Spain, the daughter of an Andalusian gypsy and a Greek naval officer. At 13, she ran away from an orphanage to dance in the cabarets. At 14, she married an Italian who abandoned her in Monte Carlo after losing the key to her bedroom in a dice game. At 18, she was the mistress of a Russian prince and two years later made it to Paris, where she became a Spanish dancer in a four-star restaurant in the Palais Royal. Sighed one admirer: "All the Orient was in her hips...
...Rockefeller. The government's Gambling Control Section trains and licenses the croupiers, sends inspectors to watch all tables and settle all arguments-usually in favor of the customer. Casinos are prohibited from advertising, serving liquor or accepting bets beyond certain limits. The top is $100 per roll for dice, $50 for a hand of blackjack and $20 on a roulette number...
...Hickey the hardware salesman peddled illusions in Iceman, Erie Smith (Jason Robards) the gambler is parched for illusions in Hughie. For more years than he dares to remember, he has been playing against the house, and the house is life. Life plays with stacked cards and loaded dice, and O'Neill, almost alone among U.S. playwrights, can make this simple self-pitying cliche sound like a fresh and bruising truth...
...himself. Hughie was Erie's false mirror image, the man who gave him the confidence to see himself as he is not. Hughie was the heaven-sent sucker who believed that Erie was the lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway mobsters. On a hungover losing streak, Erie knows that he desperately needs another Hughie, and the question is whether the new night clerk, a mousy, laconic deadhead (Jack Dodson), can be conned into the role...