Word: dices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spending its days in the streets, the lost generation alarms many black community leaders as much as it does white government officials. Perhaps half the urban youth eschew political activism, preferring to loaf, play soccer, drink beer and shoot dice. Thousands upon thousands of others are tough political activists. They seem to roam the townships like so many deputy sheriffs, setting down the law of the street and enforcing it with harsh punishment...
...intention been to denigrate women, I certainly would not have gone to the extent of assigning them a particular race in my act. I was not out to be another Andrew Dice Clay...
...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
...gives each county its own option on whether to permit gambling, just as it does with alcohol. In fact, gaming has been readily available to Mississippians for years. Boats offering "dinner cruises" regularly leave Gulfport and Biloxi bound for international waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The slots and dice usually roll long before the boats reach the 12-mile limit...
Toughest Test for Civil Libertarians Comedian Andrew Dice Clay flaunted his street-punk misogyny so outrageously that his concert film was withdrawn by 20th Century Fox and his appearance as host of Saturday Night Live prompted two women performers to walk out. Meanwhile, liberals defended to the death his right to say things they wish he'd just shut up about...