Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior Bill Diercks played a strong game in the nets for Harvard, gloving point-blank shots by Sheehy and Mike Flynn and kicking aside another half-dozen shots headed for the corners...
...ANNIHILATION," announces the latest Lampoon, "is the intriguing game of intercontinental devastation designed to delight both adults and children." Any adult or child who manages to survive the 36-page assault is more likely to be left devastated than delighted. The Lampoon attempts to obliterate war with more bombs than are necessary, and is thereby guilty of the kind of overkill it hopes to lampoon. The Overkill Number is overworked, overwritten, overwrought...
...subject of Vietnam remains a fresh one for humorists, the subject of nuclear war does not, and the Lampoon drags out all the old and hackneyed approaches. Predictably enough, world leaders gamble for control of the world. ANNIHILATION! is offered as a game in which "each player must attempt to wipe out as many as possible of the human beings inhabiting the country of his opponent," and even Jester, Ibis and The Blot find themselves trapped in "The World After Armageddon...
...Auditorium into two parts: a symphony hall on one side and a sports arena on the other. Once, Pianist Andre Watts, playing a concerto with the orchestra, heard a strange noise. "I thought something was wrong with the timpani," he said, "but it was only applause for a basketball game on the other side of the curtain." Another time, a union party at the arena got so boisterous that light bulbs began falling into the string section...
...book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside cremation of a dog's carcass-very satisfying to Albert, an Ironist-and ends with a terrifying game of ringalevio, or tag, Albert's first fist fight, and a brisk one-alarm fire...