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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tacklers on a field that measures about 1 in. by 3 in. In Space Laser Fight, as in Boxing, two tiny figures -moving pictographs about ¾ in. high that can crouch, jump and do battle-face each other and fight. The miniaturization is astonishing. Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is heard. The trouble with Bambino's products is that while the gadgetry is brilliant, the games themselves are not very interesting. The problem is not restricted...
Dyslexia, a reading disorder affecting 10 to 15 million Americans, most commonly causes "reverse reading," the frequent confusion of letters such as "d," "p" and "b" and words like...
...heavy, almost feminine. A subtle grittiness is missing. Also, Tom gives his narrator speeches front and center stage, not separate enough, not isolated enough. A perch on the fire escape/balcony, even a stroll nearer the audience would have been a nice touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle music at the beginning and end of the play, framing it in a Southern, story-telling manner but also providing an old-fashioned...
...heighten a scene, and the camera moves only when the actors' wanderings force it to do so. Benton's focus is so tight that Kramer shows a far more domestic and grittier view of Manhattan than the Allen and Mazursky films. The cinematographer is Nestor Almendros, a frequent collaborator of François Truffaut's and Eric Rohmer's and a brilliant portraitist...
...lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only by frequent replanting. Says K.H. Loftus, of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources: "The real criterion of the rebound of the lakes will be when the fish that were eliminated are back taking care of themselves...