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1850 Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth.., 'le pair, le passe, et le noir'. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette ii. 21 Among other divisions, or spaces for the stakes, you will find Passe, Pair, Manque, Impair, Noir, Rouge...
This irony was not lost on the director when he appeared last week at the first American public screening of his work, in Los Angeles, which was jointly sponsored by his union (the Directors Guild) and his agents (ICM). The film was appreciatively received, perhaps more as a civil liberties...
The trend, which began in the back-to-nature '70s but stalled in the '80s, has roared back because of powerful technological forces that are decentralizing the American economy. The Internet and the overnight-shipping boom are enabling high-tech industries once tied to urban centers to settle in the...
. The Robertses' bid not only reaffirmed Diller's status as a mogul manque, but it left CBS on the block for a takeover attempt by anyone from the Walt Disney Co. to cable-TV magnate Ted Turner. By agreeing last month to join forces with QVC, Tisch, 71, had shown...
In its latest issue, American Enterprise reports that huge majorities in every G-7 country but one -- Japan, surprisingly -- express unhappiness with the direction their nations are taking: 71% in the U.S., 70% in Canada, 63% in Britain, 61% in France. The surveys bear out a growing sense that electorates...