Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plow horse of stand-up comedy. Currently he does concerts in three or four cities a week in addition to his subbing duties. For The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno, he will appear in 250 new episodes a year, more than twice the number Carson now does. And no slot is planned for a substitute host. Leno will not have a Leno...
Allen built the wall in 1954, establishing Tonight as a bedtime slot for zany comedy and snappy conversation. For five years beginning in 1957, Paar turned it into a wailing wall; he made Tonight into Event TV by tangling with politicians and crackpots, discussing his young daughter's training bra, walking off the show one night after the censors clipped a joke. And Carson, unquestionably the longest lived power player in TV, bought the wall. Or rather, as his popularity and contract demands escalated, NBC bought...
Then R.E.M., that rhythmically cerebral band from Athens, Ga., released Out of Time, which shot to the No. 1 slot in a brisk eight weeks. And Isaak had his first runaway hit. The DiVinyls, an Aussie group with a tough backbeat and a wicked sense of humor, have their own smash in I Touch Myself. The Black Crowes, a not entirely holy amalgam of the Byrds and the Allman Brothers, also found their album, Shake Your Money Maker, in the Top 10. The Mallomar metalists, Queensryche, got themselves near the chart top with Silent Lucidity, a tune about spelunking through...
...Slots are a booming market in the gambling industry, accounting for 58.4% or $1.72 billion of gross revenues at Atlantic City casinos. They are required by law to pay out a minimum of 83% of what they take in. But the bandits can be < characteristically stubborn, especially if you want them to hit. Many slotters claim the machines are preset to pay off in the beginning of a tournament and dry up as time goes by. "Most people do think that, but first of all it's illegal," says the casino's slot operations manager, Sandra Dierolf. "All our machines...
...mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...