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...Kennedy, withdrawing his name the first night, took away some of the suspense broadcasters had counted upon. So a wild skittering of network crickets ensued on the convention floor, as TV reporters with spaceman headsets whomped up the next suspenseful question: But will Kennedy stand beside Carter on the final night? Stay tuned! Flashy whip-arounds by floor reporters ("Come in, Dan") give the appearance of aggressive enterprise, but Bob Schieffer of CBS discovered that those Carter White House people so casually encountered and interviewed had been primed with "talking points" so their stories would agree...
...field that measures about 1 in. by 3 in. In Space Laser Fight, as in Boxing, two tiny figures -moving pictographs about ¾ in. high that can crouch, jump and do battle-face each other and fight. The miniaturization is astonishing. Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is heard. The trouble with Bambino's products is that while the gadgetry is brilliant, the games themselves are not very interesting. The problem is not restricted to Bambino; an observer...
...spaceman doll whose computer memory gives it a disappointingly narrow range of behavior. It breathes heavily (one of its better effects), buzzes, twitters and flashes its lighted eyes, and sounds ominous gongs, one for good and two for evil. The trouble with this Parker Bros, homunculus is that it looks as if it should be able to use its arms and legs like a true robot, and it can't. Rom will end up among the dust balls under the playroom sofa...
...also apparently a kind of communal venture; they all live together with Sun (Sunny?) in a big house in Philadelphia. He has been called a charlatan, a genius, and a madman, but the power and longevity of his art make indifference to Sun Ra impossible. Check out the original spaceman...
...stories, told and retold, sometimes acquire a life of their own. Over the years some of the faithful have been trekking to Aurora to search for the small spaceman's grave. "Sometimes they take souvenirs, and a couple of years back somebody stole the spaceman's tombstone," says H.R. Idell, the town marshal, referring to a big rock with a mysterious-looking crack in it. "But mostly folks just poke around in the ruins...