Word: dices
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Silence isn't typical of Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated...
...black or white actresses then, or for decades thereafter. Her volcanic rendition of Irving Berlin's "Swanee Shuffle" (using exactly the leg and hip moves that would make Elvis Presley a star) quickly lures Zekiel, a naive sharecropper, into her arms and, just as quickly, into a loaded dice game run by her no-good lover. Chick then gets religion and makes a stab at domesticity, but her noble aims don't suit a body designed for hot lovin' and a soul drenched in deceit...
...Roll of the Dice...
...this incentive built into it for losing candidates to roll the dice again,” Winters says...
...Israelis - be they soldiers and settlers enforcing the occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, or simply citizens in their capital city looking to get a slice of pizza or dance in a nightclub - that has made every single day a roll of the dice with death. Carnage on the streets has become a daily affair, and an economy that boomed in the 1990s has ground to a halt (a downturn sparked by the global high-tech blowout, but exacerbated by the crisis in confidence). Tourism is down by half, and likely to fall further. Why would the tourists visit...