Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gambler" took a golden opportunity on Tuesday night to display his extraordinary incompetence, choking on Gerald Williams's bat and spitting out a season-ending run after eleven innings--and an entire summer--of unforgettable baseball...
...American Securities Administrators Association showed conclusively last week that the majority of people attempting to day-trade professionally lose "everything they invest." Does this sound similar to casino gambling? It is. Both involve bets on random moves that come with heavy tariffs and that ensure it's a rare gambler who can beat the house over time...
...only way we can find good stories is by going back to Titus Andronicus. Clueless directors find their inspiration in Jane Austen. But this doesn't get around the fact that we're seeing full-dress, four-hour versions of Hamlet now, with Dostoevsky's life story, in The Gambler, on its way this August. And these are not just the playthings of the black berets in art houses; to my alarm, the Academy Awards for three straight years now have gone to films I've actually liked for their classical power, humanity and intelligence...
...scientist--or the gambler--in us has to admit that there is something in what McDermott says. Falling in love can seem fairly random, involving routines that could be applied to anyone: stares, smiles, witty remarks, revealing remarks, endearing remarks, hands touch, lips touch. We know the drill. Bow to your partner, curtsy to your corner. Suddenly your corner becomes your partner. Are the stars out tonight? I only have eyes...
...leather at Prada or dining on caviar at Petrossian. No detail has escaped Wynn's notice. "New hotels are always a blessing and a curse, but if well done, they stimulate the public's interest in Vegas," says Wynn, CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc., and the son of a gambler who came to Las Vegas in the 1960s. The biggest stimulus at the Bellagio, of course, is Wynn's $300 million collection of works by, among others, Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns, and sculptures by Giacometti and Brancusi...