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...People say repeatedly, 'This is the last game, I've got to go," says Eric Jacobsen '86. He adds that addicts will miss classes or stay up until 4 a.m., not realizing how much time has elapsed...
Others will go to the extreme of playing alone, he says, adding, "playing with yourself, so to speak, is pretty weird." Another tactic is talking about the theory of the game while away from the table, says Jacobsen. "There's not really a heck of a lot to say about foosball which makes talking about it so surprising," he adds...
...surprising that a former master can lose his touch. As Jacobsen says, "the only place you can find foosball tables are college campuses and sleazy bars...
...level of pure military history, West Germany observed the occasion much as its erstwhile enemies did. Television devoted hours to round-table discussions about what happened. D-day veterans talked about the confusion among commanders and the contradictory orders that flowed from German headquarters. Historian Hans-Adolf Jacobsen told the viewers that a major German failure in 1944 in bad intelligence, the Allied Invadors were expected to strike in the Pas-de-Calais, not in Normandy. Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel, whose father Field Marshall Erwin Rommel commanded the German Atlantic defenses, called D-day "one of the various great defeats...
...shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that all good design must be Danish. There are two Italians (Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Marco Zanuso) and a Finn (Tapio Wirkkala), reflecting the international, eclectic diversity of the decorative arts in our time...