Word: slotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York lawyer IDA CASTRO is the leading contender to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. One reason she's topping the list: she has ties to Harold Ickes, new White House deputy chief of staff. Clinton had hoped to fill the eeoc slot and several other civil rights posts before Martin Luther King...
...Acura Legend pulls into the garage in San Marino, California, and out steps a slightly built man with graying hair, in suit and tie, just back from work. He calmly surveys the workout equipment he has set up in the adjacent parking slot: two heavy bags and a pair of rigs, one supporting a stack of five 1-in.-thick pine boards, the other a stack of three. Suddenly he explodes into violence. His right foot lashes out, delivering a blow that cleanly severs the five stacked boards. Without missing a beat, he slams his right fist into the stack...
...other peacetime locale are the metaphors and ironies so impossibly juicy, so ripe for the plucking. And there are always new crops of redolent, suggestive Vegas facts, of which any several -- for instance: the Mirage has a $500-a-pull slot-machine salon; the lung-cancer death rate here is the second highest in the country; the suicide rate and cellular-phone usage are the highest -- constitute a vivid, up-to-date sketch of the place...
...local predilection for smarmy euphemism. From Wayne Newton on down, every man in Vegas calls every woman a lady. One of the local abortion clinics is called A Lady's Needs. Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that the patron of the M.B. Dalitz Religious School is the late Moe Dalitz, the celebrated gangster...
Semantic nuance, it turns out, is important. "They don't see themselves as gamblers," says Steve Wynn of the new tourists he is attracting. "They think of themselves as folks who are on vacation, and while they are there -- hey, let's put some money in the slot machine." Wynn hired screenwriter Jim Hart (Hook, Bram Stoker's Dracula) to write a one-hour family-adventure TV movie (NBC, Jan. 23) set at Treasure Island, and while Hart says the movie reaffirms family values and he flew his children out during production, he understands the place has an intrinsically dark...