Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Runnin' Rebel of 1980, Flintie Ray Williams has worked his way up in the years since, from blackjack dealer to pit boss at the Golden Nugget. "It's not a hard profession to break into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...
About this time, geologically speaking, my curiosity was swallowed by a black tar-pit of nausea, and I left the Dinosaur vacantly watching Ronnie beating natives in the name of truth, justice and the charismatic...
Sellars obeys that old saw among directors pressed to be innovative: "When in doubt, update." Caesar is now the President of the US, Ptolemy is young Khaddaffi clone, the stage is a partially completed Hotel Cairo (the orchestra pit doubles as a swimming pool), and references to oil politics, game shows, and Navy musicals are bandied about with anachronistic glee...
...your receipt!" The film Back to the Future cracked up its audiences with a scene in which Michael J. Fox's character, who has traveled back in time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill the gas tank, check the oil, clean the windows and polish the chrome...
...pit," Yale Coach Tim Taylor said. "It's supposed to be a pit...