Word: hopscotch
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...Electronic Hopscotch...
According to Saudek there is no reason to expect improvement in commercial television. He said the three major networks now provide only a game of "electronic hopscotch," with channel-hoppers discovering as little variety as they would among three rock-and-roll stations. But prospects for change seem dim, since the networks are making money, he said...
...actors, including some surprisingly competent bit players. He has an an imaginative and ambitious choreographer in Chet D'Elia, and in Judy Friedlander a costume mistress who evokes early Forties styles exceedingly well. But there are also disabilities. For one thing, the stage is not much larger than a hopscotch square, and it shows up any amateur faults in the show's drive for professional slickness...
Path of Obstacles. Hopscotch is aptly named. Not since Ulysses have so many obstacles strewn the path of understanding. The first 56 chapters are to be read in numerical order. At that point the reader, obeying Cortázar's Table of Instructions, is asked to leapfrog ahead to Chapter 73 and then hopscotch about in all directions on a course that, if followed, means reading 56 chapters twice and one chapter four times-all told, 900 pages...
Cortázar, 51, an Argentine novelist now living in Paris, has already evoked comparisons with Sterne, Proust and Joyce, and certainly Hopscotch's obfuscation is occasionally relieved by glints of unmistakable skill. Here and there a single sentence escapes the darkness with epigrammatic force: "All madness is a dream that has taken root...