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...Malaysian mania for gambling. A common approach is to invite a minister or government official for an afternoon of golf, bet heavily and then spend the next three hours swatting the ball into sand traps. An only slightly more straightforward method is to get into an after-dinner poker game with a key civil servant and lose heavily...
...fiesty couple is soon thrust into the world of international espionage--naturally through the old device of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The good-guy secret agents (led by the poker-faced Marcel Bozzuffi) promise to protect Renato and Albin from the bad-guy agents so long as they help them obtain some mysterious microfilm. Molinaro treats us to more than 90 minutes of car chases, dart guns, and hair-breadth close calls, using nearly every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills...
Once a big horse-racing fan, Vorenberg has given up that interest in favor of baseball. "Besides the Red Sox, I like squash, occasional poker and skiing," he says...
There comes a time in the business of playing poker and being President when you have to push in your whole stack, as L.B.J. used to say. Reagan has. Now the only way he is going to succeed is with success itself. Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican of Ways and Means, observes that soon there must be a perception of progress, of change no matter how small, if the "new beginning" is going to take root and grow. That feeling can come a hundred ways-from action on the Hill, from Reagan's speeches, from lucky...
...themselves with crossword puzzles and, in spite of their lack of sleep, tennis on the embassy courts. Once, while waiting for a particularly critical Iranian reply, the Americans joshingly cast an imaginary movie of the negotiating drama. They agreed that Henry Fonda or Jason Robards should play the lead, poker-faced Christopher. Karl Maiden was their choice as soft-spoken Harold Saunders, the State Department's Near Eastern specialist. Peter Ustinov was assigned the role of Alec Toumayan, the team's balding, urbane interpreter...