Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gambler should go to New Haven today and take advantage of the Yale scalpers who have been adversely affected by a large supply of tickets and a relatively small demand. Unlike Harvard students who received only 3000 tickets. Yale students claimed 8000 tickets and are struggling to get rid of their extras...
...more than 96 m.p.h., faster than established events in Monaco and Montreal. The fifth-place finish by Brazilian Nelson Piquet was enough to give him the 1981 world championship. As for high rollers, Sports Book Manager Jimmy Vaccaro observed: "The race just doesn't draw the breed of gambler the fights do. Boxing people bet everything; a race fan plays twenty-one with his wife...
Hell-bent or Heaven-sent [A minor retrospective.]--In the Mean Streets you watch him and feel nervous, conservative. He's out there on the edge, way out there, pushing it, chancing it, going much, much too far, and you wish he'd stop it. He's a compulsive gambler named Johny Boy who flouts all the rules of the petty Mafia, who never shows up even when it's most important, who just won't behave, and he seems live to make it all worse. It's pathological, but he won't quit. It makes you feel mealy...
Maybe B.P. was too much the gambler, more excited by the flow of the play than by the final totals. Maybe his long-running affair with Sylvia Sidney, then one of his most winsome discoveries, diverted attention just as the coming of sound and the Great Depression led to bitter executive battles at Paramount. And maybe he needed to prove that Ad was right after...
...career provides a capsule history of the black experience in show business. Her mother was an actress who always wanted to be what Lena is now, glamorous and successful, and her father was a gambler and numbers runner. The first five years of her life she spent mostly with her grandparents in Brooklyn, where she was born; after that she was boarded out with families in the South while her mother toured with acting companies. The acting did not bring in much money, however, and when she was 16, Lena became the wage earner, dancing and singing in the chorus...