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...starts to describe an ellipse. "Then you have torpedoes." He turns his spaceship, fires an arrow-shaped blip and the other ship disappears. Space War has an infinity of variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into Hyperspace." Arny's ship disappears in a flash of light. "But you don't know if you'll come back", he adds. "And if you do, it'll be in a totally random spot." Space War's cosmic overtones of that other world are only less intriguing than the mechanics of the game itself...
...former years have gone, or at least become so attenuated as to be barely recognizable. In the old days (one remembers from childhood newsreels) the stars used to come out, as they should, at night. Their exits from the black limos would be lit by epiphanic blasts of flash powder, while searchlights wagged their fingers across the suave Los Angeles...
...sprints and middle distances proved once again to be the squad's strong suit, and were the scene of some outstanding individual performances. Junior Todd Hooks donned his Flash Gordon costume and cruised over the cinders to easy victories...
...meant to believe that Friday's tribe of cannibals represents some grander order of cultural purity free, one supposes, from the debauching influences of conscience and thought. These cannibals, however, would be at home in a minstrel show: they chuckle over the white man's antics, flash long rows of gleaming teeth and pass a great deal of time either sitting around the campfire or singing about the funny ways of the palm tree. For the mentality behind Man Friday, this may indeed represent a higher form of culture...
...resign from office. An hour later, when he broke the news to his Cabinet of his "irrevocable" decision to step down this month, the ministers sat in stunned silence; tears rolled down a few cheeks. So great was the disbelief by the BBC that it delayed telecasting the flash bulletin from 10 Downing Street for 32 minutes until it had been double-checked...