Word: backgammon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...14th of Ramadan Cafe alongside the square, young men in frayed suits and old men in shabby jellabas sip tea or puff on water pipes, while backgammon counters slap, slap in the background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs...
...people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer of 1994, I was not Marcia Kleks, the gambler's girlfriend. I was a lawyer--an intelligent...
...matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...
...also insisting that his diminished role had been planned all along. Shapiro is skilled, in fact, at doling out praise that is either damning or faint, sometimes both: Marcia Clark was an "honorable adversary," he notes before launching into an embarrassing tale about Clark's ex-husband, the professional backgammon player. Darden, he writes in a sly twofer, "hadn't mastered (if indeed he wanted to) Johnnie Cochran's self-proclaimed adeptness at not ever letting people know what he was thinking and feeling...
...computers that play requested songs and videos) and an array of music memorabilia, including the poetry Bruce Springsteen wrote in junior college (excerpt: "emerald waves crashed upon the shores...") and a list from the Rolling Stones detailing what they required backstage for their 1972 tour (among the items: vodka, backgammon set and "apple pie--lots"). As of last week, however, workers were still hustling to put the finishing touches on exhibits in the 150,000-sq.-ft. facility. Joked museum director Dennis Barrie: "Welcome to our organized chaos...