Word: pokerful
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...inches closer and closer to forsaking emotion altogether. Currier is clearly and artist of proficiency and discipline, but the solemn mood she so carefully constructs does not seem ideal for the project at hand. Passion is a messy, extravagant phenomenon, and a hard one to characterize from behind a poker face...
...calls "my angel" that Mommy would be right back. Sadly, though, crank squeezes time like an accordion, and since Jennifer swore her solemn maternal oath, approximately 100 hours have passed in a sleepless, virtually food-free blur of hurried parking-lot drug deals, marathon bouts at the video poker machine and frantic cigarette runs to the mini-mart...
...from hotel room to team bus, because those few seconds may be the only time those particular fans crowding the lobby see him, and he wants to get it right. He is so polished that his few scrapes with indiscretion--losing tens of thousands of dollars in golf and poker bets to hustlers, getting named in a paternity suit last week, commenting that playing Reggie Miller is like chicken fighting with a woman--bounce off him in ways Ronald Reagan only dreamed about. Apart from instinctive curiosity, few have ever questioned what chicken fighting with a woman means...
...Sullivan, the poker-faced TV variety-show host, having spotted the effervescent moptops in mid-mob scene at London's Heathrow Airport the previous October ("Who the hell are the Beatles?" he'd asked excitedly), brought them over to play his show early on, in February 1964, and 70 million people tuned in. A congratulatory telegram from Elvis Presley, the great, lost god of rockabilly, was read at the beginning of the show, in what might have been seen as torch-passing fashion, and Americans--or American youth, at any rate--promptly fell in love. ("I give them a year...
...apartment in the Back Bay and heused to invite us up there," Mahony says. "Wewould play poker with Bill and have a greatevening, a couple of drinks...