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RACK 'EM UP Fancy yourself a modern-day Minnesota Fats? Now you can sink those eight balls and hustle suckers without leaving your PC. The Real Feel PoolShark from Interact ($29.99) works with all USB-enabled computers, including the iMac. How it works is simple: you hold a pool cue (plastic one included) over a roll bar on the mouselike controller. How fast and far you move it directs the virtual cue on your screen. Also included is the PC-only game Ultimate 8 Ball, which lets you try your luck against computer players or challenge other hustlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...wonder Ron Mason, Michigan State's poolshark coach, told The Detroit Free Press a week ago that the Harvard crowd is "obnoxious." Not, said Mason, because it's loud, but because of all the nasty things it says...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: When the Cheers Changed into Tears | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young poolshark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust of the cues on the Cloth of Green. Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme breathe with a smoky poetry and sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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