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Odyssey games are designed for all ages. Several, like "Cat and Mouse," are variations on the game of tag. If the cat intercepts the mouse's flight through an overlaid maze of squares, the mouse disappears from the screen. Other games are designed to be educational. In "States," for example, a map of the U.S. is attached to the screen and children are asked the name of the state illuminated by the square of light. In an electronic version of roulette, bets are placed on a separate board and a light square moves around a simulated wheel before coming...
Government Help. The Tokyo government is spurring these trends. Last month it repealed the key measure in the maze of exchange controls that have kept Tokyo from developing an international capital market. For the first time in 40 years, private bankers and other capitalists in Japan can keep, spend or lend any foreign currencies that they accumulate, rather than being compelled in most cases to sell them to the government for yen. In addition, at the urging of MITI Minister Kakuei Tanaka, government technicians are now working out details of a plan to shift from $5 billion to $9 billion...
...those seated further back would have to look under their seats to catch what's going down. Credit must be given to Greenwood for carefully instructing his cast in the Cockney accents of the play's South London milieu. And he also does well to guide them through a maze of scene changes and a dense fog of Pinteresque dialogue. But he nonetheless fails to shape the evening into dramatic highs and lows. The terrain the production travels is as flat as Omaha...
...throughways in the East. But then, if he stays for a while, the newcomer gradually comes to look forward to going off across town, to the rolling barrios of East L.A., on up through brown hills to green Santa Barbara, knifing through the Santa Monica mountains into the flat maze of the San Fernando Valley, zipping across orange groves to San Bernardino...
...before the election--cleaning out their desks and getting ready to go back home--1 left. While every other headquarters staff in the city was working double-time in that final push before the voters went to the polls, Hartke's workers were spring cleaning. I reentered the maze and after five minutes found my way back to the swamp and out the back door...