Page 14-Thursday,;July27, 1978-The Michigan Daily Dazzling bumps, flashes I (Continued trom Page 3) dle-aged customer become so like negative connotations often ball is a route for the release of frustrated with the game that he began associated with the word "addict." frustration. to pound on the machine and had to be "People don't hold up grocery stores to After an exam last Friday, Paul said, escorted out. get to play pinball." He compared pin- "I came right down. I had all this pent- "It's an aggressive sport," said Paul. ball instead to jogging. up energy. Pinball got it all out. was "If you're a passive pinball player iarmful? 'It's almost seductive. It's exciting, and even if you haven 't won, there are some in- ducements to continue to play.' -A University resident psychiatrist and novice pinballer you're not going to win."- Paul noted that most pinball players are men. "WOMEN AREN'T inclined toward aggressive things like that as guys are," continued Maurer. He added that the pinball machines he had placed in the all-women dorms Barbour and Newberry did not have as much business as the machines in West Quad. The West Quad machines are located right next to an all-male house. He said women may be less inclined to enter an arcade than men because of pinball's rowdy reputation. He also said that because many years ago pinball machines actually paid winning. players with a jackpot of coins, older people think of the game as gambling and may discourage youngsters from playing. One day, said Maurer, he asked a middle-aged teller from a local bank, "Why don't you come in and play pin- ball sometime?" "Oh, I don't gamble," the teller replied. A PAIR OF Marlboro-smoking 14-- year-olds in Focus pinball arcade said, their parents did not approve of theirl pinball habit. "They think a lot of bad people hang around here. They think I'm going to be influenced," said the young man, and the red-headed girl nodded in agreement. "I do better when I'm high," he ad- "THEY RELAXr people. They. become a part of their daily activity. There must be a lot better term than addicting," sighed Maurer. "Lots of people are into pinball," Maurer continued. "People in this town are avid pinball players. It's a very skilled game. Randomness and luck are involved, but there's stilla lot of skill. "Like any sport, it requires concen- tration. Anybody who plays tennis well certainly goes into a trance." Maurer went on to explain that a tennis player must push everything but the game from his mind in order to play well. BOTH MAURER and one of his regular customers, a University student named Paul, agreed that pin- able to loosen up for the whole weekend." . "It reduces anxiety levels," agreed another pinball 'fan named Ron, who claimed to have once been a pinball ad- dict. "YOU CAN withdraw. It's painful," he joked. Maurer said that his customers in- clude college students, children, business people, and others from all walks of life. He said the business people often play during their lunch hours. Paul added, "We'll just talk about pinball for 15 minutes and they grab their suitcoats and leave." MAURER SAID he once had a mid- ded. "WHEN THERE'S young people," said Maurer, "there's bound to be dope around." He said that there is a distin- ction between saying an arcade causes a drug problem in a community and the kind of people some arcades may at- tract. "A place will get a bad reputation for attracting that kind of people. Young people have to have a place to hang out," he pointed out. But, added Maurer, if he sees any drugs going around Mickey Rat's, he quickly puts a stop to it. "IF SOMEBODY'S into pinball, they can't play as well when they're high or drunk," added Paul. "Pinball relieves anxiety. You totally forget about your problems and concen- trate on beating the machine," said Maurer. "If people didn't have pinball to relieve pressure, what would replace it?" he asked. Drain canned pineapple rings and dry on paper toweling. Dip in seasoned flour and fry in a little butter. Serve with fried chicken. In the Dominican Republic this dish is called Bolo Gai. Spirited show olat, the Earle (Continued from Page6) charts, the band played through a lot of intricate arrangements with clear-cut spaces for solos, and the challenges these soloists took were generally limited. The exceptions, however, were the solos "of the bandleaders them- selves. Jones, playing more than he usually does in concert, .blew rich and sonorously through a couple of ballads. And Lewis played conservatively in his breaks - because he did all the rough stuff backing up the band. The Jones/Lewis band has long been known for the training they have given their younger musicians - and with teachers like Thad and Mel, these musicians are in good hands. 'Travesties' (Continued from Page 6) Director Kathryn Long deserves greatest credit for this sterling produc- tion. She gave the material as much shape as it could stand, choreographing croquet scenes into absurdist ballets, eliciting a diverse collage of extraor- dinarily controlled and consistent per- SHORT or LONG Haircutting By Expwrts DASCOLA STYLISTS Arborland-971-9975 Maple Village-761-2733 E. Liberty-668-9329 E. University-662-0354 a rib-tickling triumph formances, and even staging a strip- tease to "The Stripper" and burlesque flashing lights. LONG MADE the most of Stoppard's slashing wit, and, most fortunately, kept his ideas flying like a rapid-fire machine gun. Mention should also be made of Janice Reid and Kate Conners, as Gwendolen Carr and Cicily Carruthers, who were uniformly ex- cellent and practically stole the show in their pseudo-musical number. The set, though elaborate and inven- tive, did not always work. The use of slides was most effective - as was the ridiculous moment when Joyce dusts off his giant- copy of Ulysses - but the lower level of the set was not; for all its space, the barroom look of it gave it a heavy, claustrophobic feeling. Travesties moves at a lickety-split pace, and you'll be left behind if you stop to worry about lines like, "If Lenin did not exist, it wouldn't have been necessary to invent him." For. all of Stoppard's intelligence, he doesn't ex- pound on ideas as much as hold them up to the wind machine. But that's really 'beside the point. From beginning to end, Travesties is one pure pleasure. ATTENTION ARTISTS CANTERBURY LOFT (formely Canterbury House) is looking for a new logo design. THE FIRST TEN LOGO DESIGNS submitted will earn ten dollars each. THE WINNING DESIGN will earn one hundred dollars (All entries become the property of Canterbury). ARTISTS INTERESTED should first call 665-0606 for specifications. Deadline for submission of designs is Monday, August 14, 1978. CANTERBUY LOFT, now located at 332 South State Street, second floor, is the Episcopal campus ministry at the University of Michigan and sponsors programs in the arts which have an ethical or spiritual theme. Stir 'Inspector': French, fltuffforgettable (Continued from Pagef6) stranglingly underplayed, lixe the professor, perpetually mugging for everything else in the film. It's as if De the camera in a kind of forced, sim- Broca were gently, cloyingly pering preciousness. reassuring us: "Don't cry, don't laugh, ONE SHOULD mention that at least don't do anything." In a misguided it's nice to see a first-run foreign movie quest for urban-bucolic serenity, he playing in Ann Arbor. This has been an limply swathes his picture in a smiling increasingly and frustratingly rare saccharin amorphousness, where some event in a town once cultivated and good old-fashioned sadistic bite would courageous enough so that such have at least occasionally been showings were commonplace. Could welcome. For all its enforced good Dear Inspector, however tepid in and of cheer, Dear Inspector radiates a lack of itself, herald a local renaissance in comic or dramatic substance so acute world cinematic availability? Could as to make anything by Burt Reynolds 1900 and Madame Rosa be hovering just look absolutely profound by com- around the corner? parison. Alas, official runiour has it that The , As the inspector, Annie Girardot is Campus' next presentation will be - energetic but unmemorable; Philippe hold on to your Oscars - The End. Noiret, so brilliant in last year's The What's that I was saying about Burt Clockmaker, is almost intolerable as Reynolds? ) -