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...life, this is the most traditional woman's role: hearth stirrer, home saver, raising her children and supporting her man. It ! was an emblem, we now realize, of her superiority. Modern man knows that modern woman can do the old, cool-guy stuff -- run a tractor, beat him at poker, light a cigarette in a high wind -- but that he can't manage, so artfully or efficiently, what women have done since the cave days. So there's nothing inherently retrograde about Dying Young, in which Julia Roberts performs bedside therapy on ailing Campbell Scott, or The Doctor, in which...
...legal segregation: it also opened the way for later claims to equal protection under the law by other minorities and women. A generation of civil rights lawyers flocked to Marshall throughout the 1950s, when he still possessed dark, wavy hair and the stamina for long nights of poker and bourbon. He ran his office in the earthy style he would later bring to the Supreme Court, where he once shook up protocol-conscious Chief Justice Warren Burger by greeting him in the halls with a shout of, "What's shakin', Chiefie, baby...
Clifford also arranged and played in Truman's famous eight-man poker games on the presidential yacht, where he became friendly with powerful politicians who proved useful when he set up his law practice in 1950. Deflecting job offers from several Presidents, Clifford since then has served only nine months in public office. The most compelling chapters in his book cover 1968, when, as Secretary of Defense, he overcame much of the Washington foreign policy and military establishment in the "war for the President's mind." He and a few allies persuaded Lyndon Johnson to try to "extricate our nation...
...ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II and played a sergeant alongside war hero Audie Murphy in the film To Hell and Back. He has ridden bulls in Oklahoma rodeos, played poker with Clint Eastwood and tossed dice with Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Las Vegas...
...Unlike poker, this is a game where strategy is not only unnecessary but totally useless. "It's all probability," says Lee Isgur, a leading gaming and entertainment analyst at Volpe, Welty & Co. in San Francisco. Still, players cling to the idea that their own system will work: playing at a certain time of day, stroking good-luck charms or punching the buttons at a certain speed...