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...Araby are clamoring for the new machines, doubtless to keep their kids out of the casinos; King Hussein of Jordan ordered three Ballys: Wizard, Bow and Arrow, and Ro Go. Pinmania has been exploding throughout Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, where the game is ecumenically called Flipper. The passion has even pushed through the jungles of Malaysia, where the machine is battery-powered in unelectrified villages...
...Broadway arcade. One of New York City's most diligent pin pushers, Buckley addresses the machine in the classic stance. With body about 1½ ft-away from the cabinet, one foot slightly ahead of the other, weight leaning on the arms with index finger on the flipper button, he pulls the shooter gently and watches the ball rebound off the top arch. "This game rewards concentration, mastery of the technique of hand-eye coordination, a positive attitude," he observes. "You have got to lose yourself in it. That is the therapy of it. When I was trying...
What if Herman Melville had been a screenwriter in the age of Jaws? Would it have occurred to him to give Ahab's sense of injury and obsession with revenge to the whale, to put the moral and psychological shoe on the other flipper? And if he had had the temerity to shop so weird a concept around town, would some producer have had the common sense to tell him, "Back to the custom house, Herman...
...lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based on the value...
...Rines' most consuming interests has been the Loch Ness Monster. In 1972 he set up an array of underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...