Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan. To command attention from his troops, he would fire submachine-gun bursts into the ground at their feet...
...been strained by the something that, in Beverly's words, "is basically troubled between us genetically," they do not show it. They still have their private jokes and rituals, such as when Peter kisses Beverly's cheek before she goes onstage and they both whisper their favorite good-luck word: "Merde." Beverly has learned to live with the occasional insinuations that Peter's wealth has floated her career. Once a music publication reported that Peter had bought Westminster Records so that Beverly could record anything she wanted. "I wrote a letter to the editor," she says, "and said it wasn...
...break cards ("St. Valentine's Day card addressed to you, lose one strongarm and $250") or good-break cards, such as "Friendly persuasion. You get two strongarms and $150." The player with the highest score of rapine and venality becomes the Godfather. Unlike Monopoly, with its blind acquisitive luck still tied to stern if inexplicable morality ("Go directly to jail"), the players of The Godfather never get locked...
Knives and Artichokes. No Italian painter less resembled the Renaissance ideal of the gentleman genius than Caravaggio. His luck was as foul as his temper. He was in some ways the first Bohemian artist, and he thrashed about in the dogma-bound and ceremonious society of Counter-Reformation Rome like a beast in a net. In 1604 Caravaggio was haled into court for assaulting a Roman waiter who had brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped...
...season filled with close games, Harvard (3-4) and Brown (0-7) have both had their share of tough luck. The Crimson has lost only one of its games by more than a touch-down--to Princeton 21-10, after Harvard...