Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people ask. "$100," comes the reply. "Oh, shoot," says a hardened gambler. His contempt delights them more than their jackpot, which they duly pump back into the machine...
...Roulette," her husband replies. These are the sort of people who can break a hardened gambler's heart...
Chung, however, is not an entreprenuer. Nor is she a gambler. Instead, she may make her fortune from a two hour recital she gave yesterday at Sanders Theater in competetion for the Peabody-Mason Music Foundation sponsorship--one of the most prestigious national competitions and perhaps the most lucrative...
...hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number 6 million would participate in the game." Arnie Wexler, a recovering compulsive gambler and the head of the New Jersey chapter of the National Council, asserted that the chances of hitting Lotto 48 are about a third those "of getting hit by lightning and dying, which are about 2 million...
...this point the confusion starts. In the next hour, Don Prizzi, the decrepit "Godfather" of the Prizzi family orders Charlie to kill Marxy Heller, a gangster who has cheated the Prizzi family out of a six-figure sum. After killing Heller, Charlie finds that the gambler is also Irene's husband. Finally, Charlie learns that the reason for Irene's visit to New York was to do some killing for the Prizzi family. Irene it seems, has loyalties only to herself...