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A-l 4 The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Neenoh Menosha, Wis. Thursday, Jan. 28, 1988 Avenue Mall Friday and Saturday January 29 and 30 season's hottest game hi rum to have more fun?) In 1985 he pulled together $35,000, manufactured 1,000 copies of Pictionary and persuaded several stores to stock the game. A year later he began marketing it nationally. With the exception of a three-week national television advertising campaign last fall, publicity about the game has been by word of mouth and through news stories, Last summer Pictionary Junior for children 7 to 11 years oid and Bible Pictionary were introduced.

Angel also is collecting contributions for the Pictionary Book of Greatest Sketches. FINAL MARKDOWNS SOW 0 OFF Body composition test scheduled All remaining winter merchandise; coats, suits, dresses, cocktail clothes, all sportswear. Designer Labels Escada, Valentino, Feraud, Eleanor Brenner, Mary Ann Restivo NEENAH Mercy Medical Center will offer body composition analysis testing at its Neenah office, 938 W. Cecil from p.m. Feb.

4. "Most people are not aware of their true body composition," said Norma Dyer, community outreach coordinator at Mercy. The analysis, she said, provides information which encourages a commitment to exercise and good nutrition. Clients will receive a computerized printout with information on the percent of body fat, specific weight of body fat, lean body weight, total body water and recommended weight. The analysis also includes personal weight loss recommendations and charts, all based on sex, height, activity level and body composition.

It takes about 15 minutes and the charge is $15. Advance registration is required and additional information is available from the Neenah office, 727-3060. Drastic Reductions! Everything Must Go! SAVE 38 HUGE JANUARY Pictionary is By Henri Rix Kansas City Star A group of adults huddles around a colored board. As sand sifts through a tiny hourglass, one person scribbles frantically on a note pad. Squinting at the weird shapes appearing on the paper, other people pace the room, tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and crying out words.

Are we having fun yet? Ask the guy holding the pencil in this round of Pictionary and he'll probably whimper no, but millions of Americans are going crazy over the game. The season's hottest board game is charades on paper: Players sketch clues to words that their teammates try to identify in less than a minute. The 6,000 words in the first edition of the game include such gems as "Illinois," "sweat" and "box spring." Veterans contend that the artistic-al ly inclined are no more adept at the game than people who haven't drawn since kindergarten, because artsy types tend to aim for perfection instead of recognition. "Anybody can play Pictionary. It's not intimidating," inventor Rob Angel says.

"There's pressure to perform in any game." Introduced nationally in 1986, Pictionary really took off last year. Toy and Hobby World magazine rated it the second-best-selling diversion in the country in November. A home video game topped the list. Angel says that 3 million copies were sold at prices ranging from $18 to $30, with retail sales totaling $75 million in 1987. Games are a funny business, but there's speculation that Pictionary could become the new Trivial Pursuit.

Since Trivial Pursuit was in Looking back Compiled by Don Mendyke, Post-Crescent copy editor News items show gains for women From The Appleton Post January 1888 The trustees of Lawrence University have voted to erect a ladies hall which will cost $20,000. At last and slowly the woman student in the American college is coming to be deemed of quite as much consequence as the man student; and in an increasing number of colleges as much is now being done on her behalf as on the behalf of the men. It is a good thing for the colleges, good for the women, and by no means bad for the men. A brute of a husband, on being informed by his wife that her choice of dress was customary, observed that it was too costume-airy for this kind of weather. Now he proposes to have the bill for his Christmas present sent to him three months earlier than she intended.

When anybody dies, gets married, runs away, steals anything, builds a house, makes a big sale, or whips a man or his wife, breaks a leg or gets the sense knocked out of him by a mule, or does anything that is in any way remarkable, and you have reason to believe that you know as much about the occurrence as anybody else, don't wait for some other person to report it, or trust us to find it out by instinct. But come and tell us about it, or sent the facts to us. A paper is being circulated among the business men of Men-asha to be presented to the council, remonstrating with that body against encouraging the establishment of an electric light plant in that city, it being considered unwise to incur such an expense, for the present at least, or until the bridges are paid for and outstanding indebtedness cancelled. at is troduced in the United States in 1983, 30 million copies of the original version have been sold, with retail sales at $750 million. "Games like Pictionary are party games, or excuses for people to have parties," says Christopher Geist, associate professor of popular culture Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

"They force people into interactive roles." Several retailers say Pictionary received an inadvertent plug last holiday season from the new TV game show "Win, Lose or Draw." The show similar to Pictionary: Two teams compete for prizes by sketching and guessing words or phrases. Actor Burt Reynolds is executive co-producer of the show; the official line is that it's based on a game he has played at home with friends for years. In conjunction with the show's debut last fall, Milton Bradley Co. released a home edition of Win, Lose or Draw. Senior vice president Larry Bernstein says the company has been working on the concept for some time and there are some differences in how Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw are played.

He says 1 million games were sold last year. Meanwhile, Angel says he's thinking about creating a TV game show based on Pictionary. Call it the war of the words. For the record, charades is an old game. A spokesman for Toy Manufacturers of America, a trade association, also notes that it's not unusual for two people or two companies to come up with the same idea simultaneously.

Angel, 29, developed Pictionary in the mid-1980s while he was working as a waiter in Seattle. (Like the inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Angel is from Canada. What's going on up there? Do Canadians really know how Fat Continued from page 12 "People love their pets, and they want them to eat. So they add the extras, the goodies from the table after buying the super premium food. Many people have house pets that sit on chairs, sleep in bed with them, eat when they eat.

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