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...much use is made of it in the game cartridges. Graphics seem perfunctory, and the games generally are too shallow to interest adults. Dynasty, a promising maze puzzle based on the Chinese game Go, is too easy to be interesting. Cryptologic is a not-very-mystifying letter substitution code. Alien Invaders?Plus shows one imaginative quirk, a tiny figure that flees in terror when its fortress is destroyed, but otherwise is an uninspired copy of Space Invaders...
...sense of being condemned to uselessness in a world that worships the useful. Out-of-work people who do not develop such feelings on their own are apt to be given them when they visit the unemployment office: there the applicant is more often treated like an alien culprit in need of interrogation than an unlucky citizen in need of assistance. Says a young writer who was among the anonymous hundreds that Harry Maurer taped for the oral history Not Working: "I always get the feeling that the people at the umemployment office think...
...Britain, the Tonight show speaks an alien tongue...
...Reagan aide from past campaigns, is supposed to coordinate all domestic policy recommendations. But it has merely passed along ideas from others rather than generating many of its own. Says a White House aide: "You ask Marty what he's done and he'll tell you 'immigration cards' [for alien workers, an idea that Anderson succeeded in killing]. That's a great record after almost a year in office...
Haig's aggressive style is alien to the laid-back Californians at the White House, who feel that the Secretary's well-publicized turf battles with colleagues were as avoidable as they were embarrassing. The volatile former NATO commander still has a tendency to erupt at slights, but he appears more secure than he did a few months ago, possibly because he enjoys more frequent access to the President...