Word: slotted
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...still need dollar bills for vending machines," Pugh says. "Not even slot machines will accept these coins. They look sort of like chocolate money...
...post-Hollywood life are decidedly mundane: Born in 1907 in Brooklyn, Lewis initially ventured to Hollywood in the 1920s to become an actor. After his brother Ben, a seasoned editor, encouraged him to go behind the camera, Lewis worked his way up in the industry until he obtained a slot as an editor in the early '30s. He made his debut as a director in 1937 with "Navy Spy;" then came a series of westerns, and a stint in the Signal Corps during WWII (as did another cult filmmaker, Russ Meyer...
Leiszler and Palazzo, buried at the bottom of the depth chart early in the season, have been so impressive that Murphy has converted Nwokocha, the opening-day starter, into a slot receiver...
...Sony it's not just fun and games. The economics of computer gaming have come a long way from the drop-a-quarter-in-the-slot days. It's now a $20 billion-a-year worldwide business. Last year games contributed more than $6 billion to Sony's sales and $730 million in operating profits. The Japanese giant has sold a mind-boggling 75 million first-generation PlayStations, 27 million of them in the U.S. And with game consoles grabbing an ever larger share of the game market from PCs and Macs, sales of PlayStation2 could get even bigger...
...feel sorry for these people, and be inspired by their brave struggles to recover from all those wounds. But some of us are bound to take umbrage at the film's vulgar manipulations. Set in terminally tacky Las Vegas, Pay It Forward is as rigged as a casino slot machine, preying on people's hopes but paying off only for the house...