Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loving yourself. You have to do it vicariously through men instead. It is a servile position and servility means degradation. Depressing your ego, your healthy selfishness, to fortify a man's takes shape as a self-hatred. It is being held in contempt and squeezing that role for every gambler's gold ounce it is worth...
...Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Andrews) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...
Thus the horse owners continue to chase their rainbows, knowing that the gold will elude most of them most of the time. They are gamblers, and every gambler thinks that some day he will be able to do it all. Every one of them will be imagining himself in Penny Tweedy's place this Saturday afternoon as her superhorse makes his run at racing history...
...controversial Arab refugee question understandably highlights Israel's position but is not very successful in its attempt to present the other side. There is a half-page on Colorado (for its Jewish community) but no separate entry on Israel's neighbor, Saudi Arabia. The encyclopedia gamely notes Gambler Arnold Rothstein and Gangster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel with crisp, forthright entries, but there is no treatment of Jewish humor beyond Hebrew parody-because, say the editors, they could not find a suitable author...
Perhaps because he is a gambler himself, Author Guetti provides Hatcher with a complete metamorphosis from professor to high roller. When last seen he is heading south in a Cadillac for more action.-Lance Morrow