Word: dices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warner shareholders. The buyout would lock the cerebral Levin into a potentially volatile alliance with the driven and charismatic Turner, who would own about 11% of Time Warner stock and become its vice chairman under the expected terms of the agreement. "In bringing Turner in, Jerry is rolling big dice," says a media-industry watcher. "He may continue to be chairman in title, but Ted brings an energy to the company that has been missing for years...
...based on a script of Crichton's that had been moldering around Hollywood for 22 years, is just the latest evidence that Crichton hits more passes than anyone else at the high roller's table, even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel he wrote under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood...
...episodes in his career, most notably Iran-contra. But his story (and, like Ike, his platform would be his life) is a warming affirmation that the dream still lives, which may be enough for an electorate saddled with a choice between Bill Clinton and whomever the Republicans offer. As dice rolling goes, taking a chance on another general is something of an American tradition and may not seem like a large risk in 1996. Meanwhile, Powell will sell a lot of books...
Will he then roll the dice? He is certainly not saying now. Neither is anyone close to him. Powell and his friends agree that one important vote will come from Alma, the general's wife of 32 years. What is her verdict? "Alma's not opining," says a Powell friend. "But her name isn't Sherman." If elected, she will serve...
...bloody 20th century. Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like pangolins or armadillos and make sure that our soft underbellies were not exposed for either inspection or slaughter...