The applause started as a low rumble and then it became something wilder and appreciative, and then there he was, Ogden himself, all 6 feet 9 of him, unmistakable, wide as a big screen, walking on the floor, dressed in a sharp black shirt.

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Lewis finished Princeton and fell onto Salomon's mortgage trading floor with a perfect memory for dialogue and atmospherics and a sharp comic's eye.

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Even before opening night, there was sharp disagreement among aficionados over Mayer's switch from the Renaissance Palazzo Ducale to a casino floor filled with slot machines, gambling tables and faux neon.

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