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...manage to tempt them with Activision's Pinobee, in which kids play a flight-challenged bumblebee that frolics through a pretty forest collecting flowers, meeting fairies and dodging funny-looking bad guys. "I'm good at this!" yelled Lucas. The seven-year-olds were less impressed with Nintendo's racer, F-Zero. "This game is impossible," said Jonathan in disgust...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish - Larry Fuente's "Derby Racer, 1975." Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object - an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...
...Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic to "kill all inturn" in what is now considered Central Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. DIED. MICHAEL RITCHIE,62, acerbic American director best known for his debut films Downhill Racer and The Candidate; in New York City. Ritchie also directed the Fletch comedies starring Chevy Chase and an hbo production self-explanatorily titled The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. DIED. HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA, 74, Japanese film director and artist; in Tokyo. Teshigahara is best known abroad...
DIED. MICHAEL RITCHIE, 62, director whose films, including The Candidate, Smile and Downhill Racer, often portrayed the unforeseen pitfalls of success; of prostate cancer; in Manhattan. Ritchie also directed Fletch, The Golden Child and The Bad News Bears...
Thank you for your story on the death of NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt [SPORT, March 5]. Reading the anecdotes and stories of drivers, friends and family broke my heart but at the same time brought a smile to my face. I've heard some say, about getting upset over his death, "You didn't even know the man." But sometimes people have a particular effect on you, and Dale certainly did on our family. He will always be a hero in our hearts. We will miss you, Dale. JENNIFER CARTER Wills Point, Texas...