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...basic strategies of games past. And both are classicists whose mature chess styles are broad, clean and lucid. Their major difference is in motivation. Spassky says, "Chess is like life"; Fischer says, "Chess is life." Thus, while Bobby lives only for the game and comes on charging, hell-bent on destruction, Boris affects an air of supreme detachment. "For me personally," he says, "it doesn't matter if Fischer wins...
...only won by a wide margin but swept his last seven games in a row. That advanced him to a match against veteran Soviet Grand Master Mark Taimanov in Vancouver last year. Fischer defeated him in six straight games. Then, last July in Denver, Fischer took on Denmark's Bent Larsen, ranked second only to Bobby in the West, and stunned him by again winning six straight games. The 19 straight victories were without parallel in grand-master chess history. Declared Sovietski Sport: "A miracle has occurred!" Then nine months ago, Fischer tangled with Petrosian again in Buenos Aires...
Only a hair separates that Hamlet-like image of self-debate from the vulgarities of Nazi youthcult art; the exaggerated slenderness verges on caricature but nowhere falls into it, and to look at the structural grace of the body, with its bent leg thrusting into the pelvis like a flying buttress, is to realize how well Lehmbruck could surround a figure with active space instead of merely displacing air with bronze. Perhaps if Lehmbruck had lived to reconcile the contradictions in his art, he would have been - against his expectations - a better abstract sculptor than he was a figurative...
...example, had the best explanation of McGovern's South Carolina strategy. New York Times readers got their expected ration of comprehensive journalism. Column after column catalogued the convention in infinite detail-even to an uncharacteristically droll bit by Robert Semple on the confrontation between a Secret Service bent on X-raying delegates' boxes of fried chicken for possible bombs and a Department of Public Health fearful that X rays would damage both dinner and diner...
...wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington group of strategists bent on heading off the South Dakotan included Humphrey Aide Stan Bregman, Muskie's Berl Bernhard, Wallace's Billy Joe Camp and the AFL-Clo's Al Barkan...