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...full-page tour de force shows Neven in his element, drinking with his buddies at the local bar. Two major panels - one of him racking pool balls and one of him gesticulating -- make up the top and bottom of the page. Smaller close-up panels of Neven or clicking billiard balls have been "laid" askew around the page while little boxes of text ("Neven versus Dutch," "Five Games") draw your eye across the page in the correct sequential order. Consequently, in a convergence only possible in this medium, the page itself reflects the excitement and exaggeration of Neven's barroom...
...Sydow), who might be a more benign John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant, mad old uncle could have concocted it in his basement. This two-edged look fits with Spielberg's idea of marrying science fiction with film noir; this is a 50-years-ago detective story set 50 years from...
...PEAR’s hallmark studies, Jahn sought to see if human consciousness could affect the behavior of a device that randomly dropped 9,000 billiard balls into a series of 19 cartons. When the balls were dropped without any human interaction with the experiment, there was a consistent cascading effect in which the center carton received the most balls while those to its left and right received progressively fewer. After a human participant was asked to concentrate intently on psychically altering the experiment’s outcome, however, the bulk of the ball distribution shifted to the right...
...meantime, there are perhaps more practical directions in which PEAR could point its research. How might the human mind be used to manipulate lotto numbers or roulette? As handy as knowing that one could slightly alter the average trajectory of 9,000 billiard balls is, everyone could use the first five numbers to the next Powerball drawing...
Mysterious shipments of billiard balls may have been showing up in Washington lately, say law-enforcement officials, and they are not for the making of The Hustler 3. Instead, anarchist groups may be stockpiling the extra balls and planning to hurl them in protest at the weekend conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund that begins Sept. 29. The balls are thought to be the troublemakers' weapon of choice--easy to hide, easy to throw, legal to possess and dense enough to cause damage. Rioters defiantly threw them, along with less refined bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails...