Word: enough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onstage. Still, there's plenty of talent on hand: Dana Carvey, a pixieish comic with devilish impressions of George Bush and Jimmy Stewart; Victoria Jackson, a ditsily appealing blond; and the sparkling, versatile Jan Hooks. If none seem destined for stardom, they have at least been together long enough to get comfortable...
...went for two years around Duke and Durham. When the putative nobleman had to borrow a few dollars from friends, it seemed to pain him royally. When he could string together enough credit, he was a sport, once laying on a swank downtown party for the Duke swimming team he managed. He lived in an ordinary town house, but it was elegantly appointed and always stocked with good wine. He boasted about his friendships with Kevin Costner, Burt Reynolds and other Hollywood celebrities...
...Atlantic City's voters were as mesmerized as if they had been tourists on the Boardwalk gawking at horses diving into pools and typewriters bigger than elephants. On the day in 1976 when the state referendum passed, they danced in the streets. Today Atlantic City has enough class to bring Cher, the queen of camp, back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination in America. But the benefits of this resurrection have been unevenly shared. "This...
...delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald Trump's two casinos: TRUMP CASTLE. WHERE BETTER IS NOT ENOUGH. Just beyond the corner, in the distance, pokes the upswept prow of Trump's 282-ft. yacht, the Trump Princess, at which local kids like to throw rocks. Even Al Glasgow, who has knocked around Atlantic City for 18 years and now publishes a newsletter on casinos, finds the picture...
Many of the travelers are old enough and isolated enough to need the trip as a passage out of lonely routines and back into society. Driver Michael Torrey pulls up to the casino around 11:30 a.m. and waits as his passengers move inside to swap their coupons for coins. "You'd think she'd need a walker," he says, pointing at an elderly tourist painfully climbing a ramp to the Boardwalk. "But she's in Atlantic City. Look at the willpower...