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...pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring for the new machines, doubtless to keep their kids out of the casinos; King Hussein of Jordan ordered three Ballys: Wizard, Bow and Arrow, and Ro Go. Pinmania has been exploding throughout Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, where the game is ecumenically called Flipper. The passion has even pushed through the jungles of Malaysia, where the machine is battery-powered in unelectrified villages...
Quick now: Who wears $700 white suits, balloons on his head, an arrow through his skull, rabbit ears and a rubber nose and is forever afflicted by uncontrollably buck-and-winging "happy feet"? "Hey, we're havin' sommmme fuuun," he chortles. Pregnant pause. "Hey, this guy is really... crazy! By now, any halfway clued-in cultist should recognize silver-haired Steve Martin, 32, a Dadaesque philosopher turned goofball...
...classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...Arrow...
...decision to come to Harvard was particularly welcome this year because he can help fill the gap left by Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, who is on leave this year, Dwight Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, said yesterday...