Word: dot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hank Ross had another idea that everyone hoped would give the game a last, irresistible quirk of personality. This is known in the business as "the tweak. He proposed having Bally's enormously popular Pac Man, a dot-gobbling yellow disc, help the player by eating balloons on the clown's head. And so it came to pass, and a sneak preview was held at a local arcade. The results, after all of this R. & D., were disastrous. The game, renamed Kick, took too long to play, and thus took in too few quarters. To remedy this, the rate...
...BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite Sam in two of the best shorts (Knighty...
...means of subsistence--a numbingly overspiced gruel of colorful flashes, bangs, whooshes, titillating, not nourishing the senses. Their predictability flexes but little the imagination. Punching in the clock; pressing the start button. Filing form A and tightening bolt C evokes the practiced and repetitive pacing of the player's dot across a screen. Punching out the clock; GAME OVER...
Oldest or not, the place reeks with tradition. Historic buildings (such as Christopher Wren Hall, the oldest academic structure in America still in use) serve as classrooms and offices. Plaques and statues dot the campus...
...breakthrough came in what both Hubel and Wiesel say was an accident. The cells of the monkey's visual cortex failed to "recognize" white dots on the screen, but reacted regularly while the researchers were changing slides. "It wasn't the dot at all, but the edge of the glass" on moving slides, Hubel says...