Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BRAGGING phone calls to friends at state schools. No rallies on the Widener steps. No explosion of tee-shirt sales in the Square. By these measures, it's been an off-year for Harvard in intercollegiate competition. The hockey team's failure to win even a slot in the NCAA tournament caused many to vow to "wait 'til next year...
...Dynasty restaurant) and something vaguely resembling the old Belgian Congo (the Safari Steakhouse). The decor inside the hotel is a giddy clash between the Forbidden City and Disneyland, in which virtually everything is either pink or purple -- unless it's gold. There are pink acoustic-tile ceilings, pink slot machines, pink Louis XV chairs in the reception area. There is a pink motorcycle parked in the '50s diner called Rock and Rolls, and there are pink chandeliers in Scheherazade, the restaurant overlooking the baccarat pit. (The Scheherazade is conveniently located so that gamblers below can order whatever they fancy...
Trump's heavy-handed gag order belied his sunny predictions for the Taj. But he dismisses the notion that he is at any risk. "People think I'm a gambler," he once observed. "I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house." Unless, of course, it's a house of cards, teetering in a strong Atlantic wind...
...concocted? Frost hopes the series will reach "a coalition of people who may have been fans of Hill Street, St. Elsewhere and Moonlighting, along with people who enjoyed the nighttime soaps." ABC Entertainment chief Robert Iger admits the show will be a hard sell (especially in the time slot opposite Cheers on Thursday nights). Says he: "A lot of people have said Twin Peaks is the critic's dream. But is it the viewer's nightmare? I would hope that the answer is that...
...single member of its jointly hired junior faculty has received tenure at Harvard. With its excessive teaching demands, even the most organized and brilliant of young scholars have found it nearly imossible to produce at a level that would have given them a passing shot at a tenure slot...