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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brightest and most imaginative graphics and sound effects in the industry are Intellivision's. The most rousing sight in home video is the between-innings sequence of Intellivision's Baseball, in which, to the sound of cheers, one team trots in to the bench and the other sprints out to the field. The game soon becomes tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette...
...thing is that either the Lebanese are the most durable people in the world, or they have achieved a nirvana of terror that allows them an unearthly jauntiness. The sight of a new bank in Beirut is as common as a bashed-in Mercedes. You cannot tell if a hole in the ground is the work of a bomb or a construction team. The distinguishing sound of Beirut is the car horn-not the Beethoven or Roadrunner horn, but the I-am-going-to-kill-you horn. The most popular Beirut outfits are fatigues and berets, signifying the forces...
...saddest thing Ahmed has ever seen, he says, is the sight of children without their parents. In the Fakhani Street air raid last summer, he came upon three such children wandering dazed in the streets. He took them to his house, where they lived until a home was found for them. Yes, he does feel older than 15. "Because I do a job greater than myself...
...minute into the penalty, a Lee Blossom shot deflected high in the air over Lau's lead--causing the Crimson netminder to lose sight of it--and when it came down, Eagle forward Jeff Cowles Willie Mays-ed it out of the air and into the net to tie the game...
...career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...