Word: nevadas
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...other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, might make a good Majority Leader. But those doing the speculating clearly don't understand the way the Senate works. Not only is majority leader actually a tedious, behind-the-scenes managerial position, but the current holder of that position, Harry Reid of Nevada, is a lot more popular in his party than outsiders realize, and his chief deputies, Dick Durbin and Charles Schumer, have their own ambitions. Senators want a leader they can call at any hour with complaints - in other words they want a referee, not a superstar. "The Senate needs to work...
...Nevada in 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis' Hound Dog is on the sound track), greasy-haired juvenile delinquents (including the main new character, Shia LaBeouf's Mutt Williams), commie-phobia (and why not? The Soviets have just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of the Bomb (hmm, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass sightings of UFOS (coming soon to an archaeological dig near...
...gong; in The Last Crusade a big boulder in Utah. This time, suggesting more modest aspirations, or maybe kiddingly deflecting the audience's gargantuan expectations, it's a weeny prairie dog hill, from which a critter emerges just before being nearly run over by speeding cars. We're in Nevada, near Area 51, and it's 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis's "Hound Dog" on the soundtrack), fear of the Soviets (and why not? they've just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of The Bomb (hey, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass...
...Indeed, it is hard to see how Samuels could pen a novel that included all of the adventures that he throws together here, including his three-day stint at Woodstock ’99, a tour of an atomic bomb test site in Nevada, a profile of Bill “the Spaceman” Lee, and his personal ruminations on his marginalia of Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey...
...Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about the luxurious perks of playing big in Nevada. To give a sense of the magnitude of these perks, Irvine told a story about one of his fellow blackjack players receiving a private plane-ride to the Superbowl and watching it from the 50 yard line. Irving emphasized that, despite all the excitement and glamour, blackjack was essentially a means...