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...court. Atari, whose Pong machines were the first to show up in penny arcades, has secured a patent on the electronic circuitry that makes the games possible. Its management contends that other manufacturers should therefore be paying Atari a royalty on each game they produce. To the true pinball aficionado, of course, all this is beside the point; what the industry lacks is a sophisticated electronic game that it is possible to tilt...
...scale is reinforced by eliminating the frame provided by the famous gold curtain. The audience sees the vast set as it enters-just as it would in Hair. Musically, the opera is a series of epic climaxes; there is, for instance, no overture. Except to the most committed Berlioz aficionado, part one is a stark musical landscape with none of the lyricism that is to follow. To compensate-and in effect illustrate the fall of Troy-Wexler and Director Nathaniel Merrill have conjured up six full scene changes spinning around on the turntable. Complete with a dazzling procession, the horse...
...about how to play football and organized them in a remarkable book, faithful to the simple and relentless Lombardi vision of the game. Flynn's presentation is very technical-and properly sweaty. The text is a filigree of football diagrams and terminology not intended for the casual armchair aficionado. But for anyone who is familiar with the intricate levels of the professional game and likes to see it described, the book can offer an approximation of what it might have been like to spend a week learning football from the master himself. For the dedicated fan, player or even...
...host, Los Angeles Investor Z. Wayne Griffin, was not quite so diffident. "I've known Bob since he was four years old," said Griffin, "and as an old Haldeman aficionado, I simply wanted to welcome home a favorite son. The public doesn't realize how much Bob sacrificed in government service." The guests at the private party in Perino's restaurant (menu: roast beef and apple cake à la mode) represented a well-heeled selection of the Southern California Establishment, including onetime Haldeman associates former Communications Director Herbert G. Klein and former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch...
...mind that your paintings don't last very long," a worried aficionado will...