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...hundreds of video games introduced each year, most flop utterly, as if their screens and chips gave out algebra rays or tax-audit emanations. A few do moderately well And once every year or so a new game jumps into the public's lap and licks its face, and proves so endearing that money in unbelievable abundance falls on the heads of its fortunate makers. It is very hard to predict which game will be a lap jumper. Robert Mullane, president of Bally admits that he was not impressed with his first view of Pac Man, the company's most...
...business professionals who take complicated work home or at skilled hobbyists who seek a versatile living-room computer. TI, in contrast, targeted the ordinary American family for its model 99/4. The machine can play games, teach children vocabulary or keep track of household finances. Yet it was a flop in the marketplace because the price of more than $1,000 was too expensive for most families, while computer buffs considered the product too unsophisticated. Observes Bill Meserve, a computer analyst with the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "The 99/4 was neither fish nor fowl...
...goal, starter Wade Lau played the first period, while returnees Mark Whiston and Steve Better played the second and third respectively. Whiston was the more spectacular, blanking the Chiefs during his stanza with his quick-flop style, but Better staved off a furious Lowell comeback after allowing two goals early in the period...
Though in many ways the experiment is daring, the creators of the IOP's first dramatic production ever will be spared one worry--the fear that a flop would preclude any further attempts to mount politically relevant drama in the space. "I don't think we're going to be daunted, even if we're not as successful as we think we will be," says Jane Markham, the IOP's liaison for the project, who expresses a firm commitment to support not only Antigone and Hair, (going up as soon as Antigone comes down), but similar projects in the spring...
...that, one needs to remember that the '40s and early '50s saw the emergence of the last major artists that the School of Paris would produce. The show has a fine selection of Jean Dubuffet's work from that time, the scrawl-and-cow-flop portraits, subway figures and fat nudes that elicited reams of indignant protest from the guardians of le beau et le bien. Quite properly, Alberto Giacometti's wiry bronze isolates are given a room to themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there are surprises-notably...