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...unexpected lapels and seams like overgrown ski trails, most in combinations of black, red and orange, so the show seemed like a massive box of spilled Halloween candy. Yamamoto, the Zen master of the subtle change, struck up a parade of flowing black coats with closings as challenging as Rubik's Cube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When Paris Is Not Burning | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...town for the opening of a touring puzzle exhibition at the MIT museum, the collectors added an air of professionalism to an otherwise casual event. The collectors arrived with a few puzzles of their own, imported from their massive stores of puzzles. Featured among the games were Rubik's Cubes, Chinese folding boxes, Indian peg games and other mind twisters from around the world...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: MIT's Puzzle Paradise | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Another puzzle that the exhibit depicts the long history of is the dexterity puzzle. This very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: MIT's Puzzle Paradise | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Four seperate displays are dedicated to three-dimensional geometric sequence puzzles. Perhaps the best-known and most obvious example of this kind is Erno Rubik's cube puzzle. That wonderful cuboid object, first marketed in the U.S. in the early 1980s, swept the globe, selling millions of copies in the process. It not only maddened the people who could not solve the easy-looking puzzle, but it spawned a generation of whiz-kids who could solve it in under a minute. Of course, some of these genuises wanted more. So manufacturers offered Cube spinoffs in odd shapes...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: MIT's Puzzle Paradise | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Senators have a duty to ensure that Bork does not have a chance to continue playing his self-absorbed game with the Constitution for him is like a 200-year old Rubik's cube. After tortured reasoning, the game's self-proclaimed master manages to find a way to come to the same end point. Bork is more than a conservative activist. He's a radical puzzle-solver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Radical Puzzle-Solver | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

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