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...Armchair Caesars have been spending the fall creating and crushing the virtual empires of this wonderful "artificial world" CD-ROM. The game--if that's the right word--puts players at the helm of a budding society, just crawling out of hunt-and-gather mode. Building your tribe into an empire proves to be a pretty addictive sensation, though it takes a mix of smart planning and tactical warfare to win the game. ($50; Spectrum Holobyte/Microprose...
...Armchair travelers can look forward to some impressive time trips in the season ahead. An abundance of forthcoming coffee-table books devote lavish pictures and well-chosen words to the surviving splendors of past civilizations. They offer visual nurturing and food for thought...
That broaches an interesting subject, one which every armchair quarterback has asked at one time or another. Just how do football players learn all those offensive plays...
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...wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though mostly absent parents, who toiled with marginal success on the vaudeville and burlesque circuits, are the obvious villains of the piece; Dean Martin is the beloved but withholding father/big brother substitute. Armchair analysis is notably warranted here, and Levy notably restrained in providing it, given that one of Lewis' salient attributes as a performer is that he exudes a palpable sense of self-satisfaction coupled with an unslakeable, almost scary thirst for adoration--not to mention, as his career progressed and then faltered...