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...second game I don’t think we got things going,” sophomore Julia Kidder said. “And I guess a lot of their hits were small singles and they really tied them together...
...thing that threw me off was that the story has no reek of allegory or race didacticism where you might expect it. Instead, there’s humor, as when a black woman confronts Julia in the grocery store about how to properly style Gabe’s hair, a naturally blond hue which she accuses Julia of peroxiding, or when Julia’s friends speculate about the real identity of the baby’s father...
Perhaps the most important moment of the game, however, came on a routine grounder in the bottom of the third, when sophomore Julia Kidder was injured covering a play at first base. Kidder, a consistent producer on offense and a versatile defender, hopped away from the bag holding her left knee and eventually left the field for X-rays...
Apparently so. The $18 game has been on selected U.S. shelves for three months, and stores from F.A.O. Schwarz in New York City to I. Magnin in San Francisco are increasing their original orders. "There are so many trivia games out," says Magnin Buyer Julia Burke. "People are looking for a different kind of interaction." Promoter Eisenberg predicts sales of more than a million this year; spin-offs, paraphernalia and even a TV show are in the works. And Makow is keeping busy by developing a children's edition, because, he says, "they are concerned about right and wrong...
Disgusting, snarls his revolutionist cellmate Valentin (Raul Julia), who is being tortured to betray his beliefs and his underground comrades. But perhaps he protests too much. For he encourages Luis to keep spinning out his scenario (which is visualized in wickedly parodistic flashbacks). Ultimately Valentin confesses that his revolutionary ardor is no less a romantic fancy than Luis' old movies are. Both are substitutes for the more immediate and commonplace forms of love that elude these fantasists of impossible perfection. And both surrender to a final irony: real life may be the cruelest of all illusions, a fantasy-film star...