Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opening Day, all the turmoil of the offseason is laid to rest. For just one day, Pete Rose is not a gambler, but the greatest hitter of the past. Wade Boggs is not an adulterer, but the greatest hitter of the present...
...Butler and Scurry know as Sam Perry is really Richard Perry, a gambler who has twice been convicted on federal charges of sports bribery. In 1974 Perry was convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie...
...sweep, intelligence and sheer storytelling drive. Firmly anchoring the film is Robert Duvall's moving performance as the wry, philosophical ex-lawman Augustus McCrae. Tommy Lee Jones provides stern counterpoint as McCrae's partner, Woodrow F. Call. Dozens of finely etched characters surround them: a roguish ex-Ranger turned gambler (Robert Urich); a prostitute looking for escape (Diane Lane); a wimpy sheriff (Chris Cooper) searching for his runaway wife; and a lost love (Anjelica Huston) whom McCrae locates on the plains of Nebraska. Not to mention sadistic outlaws, vicious Indians and other disasters, natural and man-made, on the road...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...
...spring, and Bass Player Brenda Sauter, 29, does free-lance photography jobs. The band is going on its most extensive tour in October, and Sauter has promised herself that life will be only music from then on. The Feelies play by their own rules, but even without a single gambler among them, Sauter's resolve seems like a safe bet. Or more. Put Only Life on again, and by the end of the title cut, it sounds like a sure thing...