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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Space Laser Fight, Boxing and Football, all designed by a Japanese firm called Bambino, have the cleverest electronic displays on the market this year. In the football game, two teams, their lighted figures clearly seen as if from above, pass, kick and evade tacklers on a field that measures about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

While the court will have to rule on the program's constitutionality, there is no dispute about its effectiveness: minority-controlled construction firms eventually garnered not just 10% but 19% of the Government's $4 billion in public works contracts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: How Far Can Congress Go? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

For more than two years the chirpy little girls discussing potato salad so incomprehensibly in a language clinic at San Diego's Children's Hospital have been among the world's most celebrated twins. They have been tested and videotaped, charted phonetically, featured on television and offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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