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...TIME loads the dice inexcusably in its report [June 17] on London's reaction to Osborne's play, A Bond Honoured. Writes TIME: "London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought...
...Jane Waiting's dachshund took a few turns around the floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...
...professors] willing to enter so intimately into a process whereby they in effect load the dice for and against the survival of their several students: And are they willing (and able) to function professionally in a situation wherein they hold life-and-death probability powers over their students?" he continued...
...mechanics of Pro Quarterback are simple. They involve cards, dice and a field on which the progress of the ball is marked with wax pencils. The game is best played with two to a side, one calling offense, the other defense. But the strategy is complex. The offensive quarterback picks a card from among five basic runs and five passes, calls it for either his strong or weak side. The defensive captain has three variations of the 4-3-4 defense (tight, deep, normal) and no fewer than six different blitzes. A roll of the dice then helps determine...
...surprising success is Wiff'n Proof, a cranium-cracking game of symbolic logic played with 36 lettered dice, which was deviously devised by Yale Law Professor Layman Allen. It is played for its instructional values in junior high schools throughout the U.S. And why not? It's really simple once you know that a WFF (pronounced woof) is a Well Founded Formula and a Proof is, well, a proof. And just in case that isn't clear enough, there are a few written instructions to help out-223 pages of them, to be exact...