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Resignmanship, of course, requires only the barest familiarity with the game. Those with some chess skills may prefer the Stertorous opening, said to have been used by Shakespeare...
...most of Willowbrook's residents, the institution is a warehouse, a place capable of providing only shelter and the barest essentials, for those whose families are either unwilling or unable to care for them. One building designed to accommodate 188 currently houses 250 severely retarded and seriously disturbed adolescent girls in conditions so crowded that one bed must often be moved in order to reach another. Training of any kind is nonexistent, though recent experience elsewhere has shown that seemingly hopeless cases can benefit from professional attention. The girls spend their days sitting, standing or lying in a large...
WITH mounting frustration, outsiders have sought for more than two months to make sense of portents from Peking suggesting an epic struggle for power in China. Last week China watchers from Hong Kong to Washington at last claimed to have some tangible evidence about the mysterious events. Only the barest dimensions of the conflict are discernible, but Western intelligence experts now believe that they have enough clues, including several from sources within China, to draw some dramatic conclusions...
...experience is filmed head-on carries with it a definite educational value, and some visceral impact. (The gasmask test and hand-to-hand combat training sequences are inevitable stunners). Basic Training does something well-suited to television: it presents events in all their surface complexity, with only the barest contextual or human fabric to support or explain them (thus skirting issues of interpretation). The verite approach doesn't make for art, or even sophisticated social commentary. But unless you've been there yourself, Basic Training is worth watching...
...Maybe James Taylor [March 1] does not know how to talk, but he certainly knows how to sing. It is true that his guitar fingering lends sudden lights and shadows to the barest melody. But there is something more in Taylor's music than that. It enters through the ears, chills in the pit of the stomach, melts and dissolves the heart...