Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite methods is basic eavesdropping; the cassette in his ear is continually recording the oddities of human speech. The most conspicuous piece of furniture in his new New York City apartment is a filing cabinet crammed with pages of dialogue overheard in pool halls, bars, elevators, Ping Pong parlors, gambling halls and every other stopping place in a brief, varied career...
...crude mass-culture approach. It shows how dismally ignorant blacks and whites still are about slavery." As a number of critics have noted, there were, to start with, some errors of setting. Styron objects that "counties in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee which are as flat as Ping Pong paddles look as if they were shot on a back set used for horse operas with a background of the San Bernardino Mountains...
...away from items of total uselessness, such as the "Pet Rock" of last year, and spent their money on gifts of genuine utility or entertainment. Korvette's in New York sold 30,000 video-game consoles, which turn home TV screens into playing "fields" for tennis, hockey, Ping Pong (average price: $70). Sales of Citizens Band transceivers were boosted dramatically by gutted prices on current 23-channel gear, which becomes less desirable this week when the Government increases the number of CB channels to 40 (see story page 51). King's Department Stores, a Boston-based chain...
...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 noises). They can also be used for squash and handball. In the ticktacktoe game, the set may sneer, flashing a sign-off YOU LOSE TURKEY. For those who want...
Traveling along fraternity row...three frat men wrestling on a beer-soaked basement floor...a Harvard man discussing ICBMs and Mutually Assured Destruction with a Skidmore freshman...frat men playing ping-pong for beers while scores watched...three Harvard and two Smith students forced to sleep in a Volkswagen Rabbit...and of course an exuberant Harvard football manager waltzing through the streets of Hanover at 1 a.m. with a purloined...