Word: dimensional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Church's announcement--admittedly not as outrageous as the disclosures by the Rockefeller Commission this summer--was the first identification of the public figures and institutions affected by the CIA's domestic intelligence gathering operations. This latest news only highlights another dimension of CIA investigations, the sad fact that up...
...makers of Wizard, the Bally Company, have carried pinball over the threshold of a new age. In pinball's infancy, the game's mechanisms were exceedingly simple, even one dimensional. For most machines the surface was the only reality. A given bumper, a given roll-over had a certain, fixed value, and one's score was no more or less than the sum of those values. It was not long, however, before a second dimension was introduced, utterly transforming a phenomenon that had been purely linear: certain targets or combinations of targets were designed to change the schedule of reward...
The 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...
In the meantime, correspondents sought out the sources whose information helps add an extra dimension to a bare news story. In San Francisco, Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce attended the press conference where FBI Agent Charles Bates announced the capture of Patty Hearst, later talked with members and friends of the...
SOMETIMES THE observer-observed phenomenon in Welfare is grotesque, but through the grotesqueness there are glimpses of beauty and humor. Wiseman uses film a lot like Diane Arbus used the still picture. He invites a pose, and his subjects each treat his excellent camera man. William Brayne in a different...