Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consistent joys of '70s moviegoing has been Laurence Olivier's game, witty performances in otherwise terrible films. Even junk like The Betsy and The Boys from Brazil became memorable in his hands: Who could forget his parody of a Midwestern accent in the former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain...
Cable operators and programmers are developing some intriguing program ideas. Jerrold Electronics and Mattel, the toymaker, are putting together a package of games and educational courses, called Play Cable, that the viewer can participate in by using a Jerrold home minicomputer (price: $400). The package includes gambling games and a football game for armchair quarterbacks...
...whining a fourth straight league pennant. HBO will also spend $13 million on original programming this year. Sample: National Lampoon Presents Disco Beaver from Outer Space, a satirical revue that was shown in February and included skits racier than any seen on regular TV. One was The Breast Game, starring Lynn Redgrave in a parody of TV game shows. An interview show called Upclose went on the air last October; first guests included Woody Allen and John Travolta...
...birth, its midwives are usually experimenting with nothing higher on the evolutionary ladder than the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Judson's characters are not primarily interested in great practical payoffs but in a grand intellectual quest: solving puzzles, under standing nature rather than dominating it. The game is science for science's sake...
While artificial respiration may have been needed for the Penn game three weeks ago, a pacemaker would have been standard equipment to get through the late innings of the first game...