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...gambling as a metaphor for life's scariest risks, a connoisseur's eye for beyond-gorgeous women, and a choice collection of vintage 45s. As writer-director of Fingers, Love and Money and Exposed, Toback got high on violence of word, motive and deed, where every roll of the dice can reveal the snake eyes of death. Now, with Molly Ringwald as his star and the lure of a PG-13 rating, Toback comes up with the Judy Blume version. Robert Downey (desperately charming) is a young man on the perpetual make; Ringwald (way too pouty) is his mysterious prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snake Eyes Of Death | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...Krass said, "that the team wanted to prove they were the best. As for the NCAA's, we'll have to let the dice roll...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Netwomen Nab Ivy Title Again | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...also read excerpts from a new play he finished New Year's Day called "Hapgood." The play's main characters are a spy-catcher and a Russian partical physicist who is also a double agent. "Einstein did not believe in a God who threw dice," the Russian says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Stoppard: Interpretation is Relative | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

...complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration." The result is almost as arcane to explain as Dungeons & Dragons. But it is played with Rubi Cubi dice. However that sounds, the other game crazeman, Erno Rubik, has nothing to do with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 10, 1986 | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnificent Flying Machines with Skill and Pride, | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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