Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counterpoint or underline the narrative. In the pub where everyone stops by "just to wet the baby's head," Eileen's pal Micky (Debi Jones) sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces. The musky wisp of Ella Fitzgerald's Taking a Chance on Love helps explain the mother's fatalistic refusal to leave her man. With its irresistible airs in eerily ironic settings, Distant Voices, Still Lives is the first great sing-along horror movie...
...dollar, the bettor will try to pick the winners in four to 14 of that week's games. One wrong guess loses the wager, but if bettors choose the winners in all the games, they can win between $8 and $5000, depending on how many games they gamble...
...year-old former bookie and member of Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles who gives his name only as Freddy S. says, "All these states have the lottery. All these housewives and welfare recipients are going to get hooked. Kids aren't going to get diapers and food. You can pick up almost any newspaper now and get the lines ((odds on sporting events)). You couldn't do that in my day; you had to pay for that service. All this information, it's just too accessible. It's just too easy...
...started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment. She went to Gardena instead, and her husband found the boy at 6 p.m., still waiting. On another day, she locked her house and went to Gardena, figuring she would be , back in time to let her daughter in when...
...unsavory syndicated columnist is about to print the politically devastating charges. A fictional Washington Post executive explains haplessly that while no responsible paper will publish the scurrilous column, "some little paper somewhere will run it big as life, and then the wire services will feel they have to pick it up and send it across the country . . . And there we'll be, trapped in our own operation...