Add to that Ralph Bakshi's film Heavy Traffic (1973) — a pinball table is something of a metaphor in the film for the fortunes and misfortunes of life. (That wa

Add to that Ralph Bakshi's film Heavy Traffic (1973) — a pinball table is something of a metaphor in the film for the fortunes and misfortunes of life. (That was a couple years before the John McPhee's article — must have been the Zeitgeist.)