Word: pokerful
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Their countenances-and hence their reactions to the evidence placed before them-have for the most part remained stonily unreadable. John Hoffar, 57, a retired police superintendent and the jury's only white male, generally remains stolidly poker-faced but smiled broadly once, as Prosecutor James Neal vigorously questioned H.R. Haldeman...
They moved into an apartment near Detroit's Wayne State University campus. During the day Joni read Bertolt Brecht and Saul Bellow. At night, after completing their cabaret act, the Mitchells were hosts for boisterous all-night poker games often attended by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But after one year the marriage began to crumble. Joni demanded more independence from her husband, who accuses her of deliberate scene stealing...
...crude interplay of ideas that don't die. Ruggles is an oh-so-British manservant who never thought to be otherwise: except for a clumsy streak of raw almost-sentimentality, he's in the best Jeeves tradition. In Paris he gets gambled away by his decadent master in a poker game. The proud new keeper is none other than a vulgar American family from the backwoods who struck it rich shouting its way along the grand tour. When they return with poor Ruggles to their frontier town in the Northwest, the butler is utterly lost. Until he begins to discover...
...thriller-about a boy who blinds six horses-that is now Broadway's rarest ticket. He had heard in 1972 about the incident on which the play is based. A stableboy had been brought before the magistrates in a rural part of England, accused of blinding with a poker the 26 horses he cared for. The story haunted Shaffer. He never tried to find out the actual details because "I'm not a journalist or a photographer." He is, however, a consummate technician. He delved into the history of horses as sexual and religious symbols and read extensively...
Chance-the random drip, the unsought image-bulked large as an issue among New York painters then. Liberman built chance into his work in a typically calculated way. He planned his accidents. Two early pictures in the show were done by tossing poker chips onto a canvas, marking where they fell and painting in the dots. The circles vibrate optically; the whole performance suggests a gambler's desinvolture, but preserved, fixed, a gesture trapped under glass. This way of stabilizing chance gives Liberman's early work its unique flavor, both improvised and severe enough to verge...