unfresco
Brunsvide
BOWL
SPIN
ZONE DEFENSE
able indoor recreation. But in the appreciably smaller world of PC bowling simulations, Adrenaline Entertainment’s Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling easily stands out. Up to six players can compete on a sin-gle machine choosing from a selection of game modes: exhibition, tourmament, career and cosmic bowl. There is also an excellent practice mode where the gamers can exercise their release or spins or work on those maddening spares using the pin setter. The career mode is great for compiling statistics and track ing individual progress or decline.
Cosmic Bowl is a novelty designed to induce flash backs, featuring neon lanes and glow-in-the-dark balls and pins. The gamers bowling experience can be created from scratch, including three levels of difficulty, bowling hand and various physical options. The gamers can also bowl as or against five real life professional bowlers such as Mike Aulby, Curits Odom, Steve Jaros and others. Each digital professional simulates the same style as their real world counter-parts. The game is interesting but it comes with its share of flaws. Bowling allows equal competi-tion amongst the sexes and is one of the very few mixed gender pro sports. Thus the
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scarcity of female bowlers is something that should not be missed. Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling is still the best bowl-ing simulation yet for the PC and will continue to be as long as bowling’s global popularity stays where it is. Mairaj Taufiq
If you are interested in an
Exhibition
this week, make it to THE ART OF PAKISTAN which is a display of various traditional arts from Multan at the Alliance Francaise. Crafts-manship, the mark of past times, is in fact, the art of proximity and conviviality. The ceramics of Multan, its pot-tery, its art of model-baking and its colours are a link between the past history of craft and present contempo-rary creations. Don’t miss this one between December 6-11.
If you read one
Book
this week, AMBIGUITIES
make
it
OF
HERITAGE. This is a collec-
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Ambiguities of Hentage
Fiction and Polomicr
tion of short stories and essays by C M Naim, an Indian Muslim who teaches at the University of Chicago in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. This collection contains five short stories, eighteen essays and two appendices all highly read able and thought-provoking. The superb standard of pro-duction surpasses that of some of the most prestigious publishing houses in Pakistan. Credit for this achievement goes to Ajmal Kamal of the City Press (e-mail: aaj@digi-com.net.pk; website: www. pakdata.com/aaj) who is a stickler for perfection and sim-
ply refuses to compromise on quality. The 216-page paper-back is priced Rs 225.
OR
Read the latest issue (No 4) of MUKALIMA, an Urdu collec-tion of contemporary literature edited by Mubeen Mirza and published by Akadami Bazyaft. You’ll be glad that you picked up this book because it offers interesting fare comprising. among others, Mushtaq Yusufi’s comments, in his peerless humorous style, on Bushra Rahman’s book Chadar, chardiwari aur chand-ni an interview with Qurratulain Hyder by Asif Farrukhi; four chapters from her autobiographical novel Kar-i-jahan daraz hai and a chapter from Ishfaq Ahmed’s forthcoming novel; short sto-ries; and Mubeen Mirza’s talk with Dr Wazir Agha. Excerpts
مكالمة
اکار و باز یافت
from the diary of Khwaja Hasan Nizami are revealing. This collection has an article on music (Khayal ki meyari bandishein by Dawood Rahbar); and memoirs of such renowned literateurs as Abul Fazl Siddiqui, Shamsur Rahman Farooqui, Aslam Farrukhi and Asad Moham-mad Khan. The verse section features Wazir Agha, Shahzad Ahmad, Hanif As’adi, Hasan Abidi, Khwaja Razi Haider, Muzaffar Warsi et al. This 608-page paperback is priced at Rs 150. M. Khalid Rahman
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