Word: constructible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twin figures of Love and Evil, gyrating in painted ecstacy on Wizard's backboard, could not preside over a scene of more nearly apocalyptic import. It will never again be possible to construct a pinball machine with the relatively simple patterns we are familiar with--one bumper, regardless of sequence, predictably changing the value of another. In Wizard, only after the Thumper Bumper target is hit, or the Center Target target, are the appropriate flags flipped and roll-overs activated. And only then can the roll-overs activate their respective functions. The relationships of the many elements of the pinball...
...construct the whole thing like planning a war. You can't win every battle. Even the best army has their weakness so make sure that weakness is used strategically so that the big battles...
...gives MASCO a 121A designation then under Mass state law MASCO would be allowed to construct the power plant...
...butt of your amusement." The script seems just badly written until one listens critically and realizes that every line could have been lifted from a Late Show rerun. The lines are as carefully strung together as if the whole purpose of the script had been to construct the perfect dialogue from long-retired phrases and adolescent sexual puns. Oscar's favorite line, as he tries to figure out how much the girl is really worth, is the standard flyer: "Didn't her brother leave her something?" In classic versions of the "fortune" plot an aristocrat's title was responsible...
...knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the checkerboard is a great swarm, with no one heading anywhere. Moseby hasn't got a chance of wrestling this free-for-all into the neat conformity he likes: once his blocks are set up, the whole construct just tumbles down again...