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...tennis, the basic game, there is a dotted net, a white ball and oblong bars representing racquets on the screen. By twiddling their control knobs, players can drive, volley and angle shots without sweat or risk to tendon. Fast reflexes are demanded, however. As the game progresses, some units automatically speed up the ball; others allow the players to set the pace as well as select the length of game (from 2 to 20 minutes). The screen keeps score. Pong and other games emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase...
...imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...many ways, the nerve center of TIME's editorial operations is an oblong counter stretching along the east side of the Time & Life Building's 25th floor. We call it the copy desk. Day and night, its staff oversees the movement of TIME stories from writers to senior editors to the managing editor to researchers, logging, typing, reading and routing stories. At week's end a TIME story may have been retyped as many as eight times. Copy-and proofreaders check for errors in spelling, punctuation and syntax...
...director, Scott is equally extraordinary. Movement on the long oblong stage of the Circle in the Square/Joseph E. Levine Theater requires something like traffic control to keep the actors from drifting out of rapport with the audience. With the aid of Thomas Skelton's spotlighting, Scott concentrates the focus and heightens the emotional pitch of the play. Its theme comes across with blinding clarity - failure is the only sin Americans will not forgive. And Miller's language, often criticized as pedestrian, has been scoured to spareness since 1949. All in all, a redoubtable revival of a masterwork...
...cultural heritage than the design of a "stolen view" garden or the traditional cutting of a mortise-and-tenon joint in a cedar beam. Like the rest of that heritage, it is dying. The souvenir shop of the famous Ryoanji temple in Kyoto sells boxes of tiny oblong sugar candies. The boxes are exquisitely plain, made of thin strips of unpainted pine. But touch one with a cigarette and it melts: the pine is, in fact, printed Styrofoam...