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Even sophisticated audiences get a childlike enjoyment out of scenic prestidigitation, and when the anteroom of Orlofsky's villa rotates in the second act to reveal a banquet hall with a sit-down dinner for 57, the marvel is rewarded with outbursts of applause. A revolving stage, however, should not be the highlight of the evening...
Intriguing for a while, perhaps, but nowhere near as commanding as Tomy's Omnibot 2000, an electronic marvel that's like a doll sent from outer space to beguile both boys and girls. Omnibot requires major bucks (about $450) and a little mechanical training, but it will repay all instruction-book diligence. Children will need help programming the Omnibot to perform some of its more exotic functions (such as answering the door or serving morning o.j. in bed at a preselected time), but the remote control is easy to operate after a minute's tutorial. Omnibot will raise its right...
...cast really deserves a hand for pulling off a difficult feat with grace. Particularly noteworthy is Leah Nutting as the tyrannical bridge-playing editor Betty Scant. Any writer who has ever suffered under the tyrannical hand of a tasteless editor will marvel at the verisimilitude she brings to her tirades, considering that she has a red polygon perched on her noggin. If only all our editors were so well dressed...
...while sleek 12- meter racing yachts were battling the stormy seas off the western coast of Australia in the America's Cup trials these past weeks, a much more modest vessel was being launched in the calmer waters of a harbor in nearby Fremantle. The skipper of the miniature marvel is none other than Ben Lexcen, 50, the celebrated designer of Australia II, which won the America's Cup in 1983. Featuring a scaled-down version of Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel, the 14-ft.-long fiber-glass Mini 12 sells for about $3,000, is virtually unsinkable...
...sympathy. "When you see someone that good working that hard," Melvin Bratton says, "it's depressing. We kept telling him, 'Your time's coming, it's coming.' " Now that third-year Coach Jimmy Johnson describes him flatly as the "best college quarterback I've ever had," some of them marvel that he is unchanged. "He's just old Vinny," says Gregg Rakoczy, the center. "He wants to show how good we are, not how good he is." Despite himself, Testaverde showed how good he was at eluding the Sooner pass rush, and how strong...