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...encourage the state legislature to pass DeLeo’s bill and hasten the construction of the two resort-style casinos and four race-track slot machine banks for which it calls. Although we recognize that gambling may not be the most productive industry, or the most morally sound, the economic benefits for both the public and private sectors that follow from allowing in-state casino operation far outweigh the moral grievances that some individual citizens contend should force the government to disallow it. So long as Massachusetts actively works to prevent and counteract the negative consequences excessive gambling...
...Ertegun and house arranger Jesse Stone had to prod the new guy to drop the crooning (on some early recordings, like ?It Should?ve Been Me? and ?Greenbacks,? he adopts the nasal whisper of a race-track tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were primitive and primal. The lyrics to ?Don?t You Know? might be maddeningly, mantra-ingly repetitive (?Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl...
Many years ago, Lyle (Jeff Bridges) and Vinnie (Nick Nolte) pulled a complicated race-track scam. It made the former rich, the latter guilt-ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent...
While speaking out against the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, a federal law giving Native Americans the ability to run gambling facilities as a way of improving tribal well-being. Weld promoted legislation to let race-track owners run off-track betting salons complete with video poker games, Roosevelt alleged at the conference...
Barich embellishes the moment ("It was like somebody weeping in a darkened the ater long after the movie's ended"), and the effect is corny, but nice, like a good fishing trip. His race-track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize you've been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely...