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...Crunch!" "Chop!" "Smash!" "Crash!" U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne suggests that the demon in him is his "pursuit of the Idea of the game, in the Platonic sense. All of us players have that ideal. But Bobby knows how to embody it. He has the ability to overcome the chaotic mess and the complexity of modern chess, the baroque scramble, and isolate a single theme, a single line of development and carry it through. How he does it is his secret. Nobody else...
COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE features two of Shaft's soul brothers, a pair of Harlem plainclothesmen named Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) who made their movie debut in the casual, sometimes chaotic comedy thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem (1969). In Charleston Blue, Director Mark Warren shows a boisterous if somewhat blatant sense of fun as well as a knack for dealing with mayhem. Charleston Blue is like slaphappy and violent vaudeville. Under the guise of cleaning up the ghetto, a flashy fashion photographer called Painter is rerouting all the Mafia...
...PACE of the acting was very lively and energetic, even confusing and chaotic at times. Judging by the children's response, as they craned their necks to see above the performers' knees, the action held their attention, keeping the excitement level high. But Milne's Pooh seemed rather out of place among all this activity. Although this pace was for the children's benefit, Edward Bear is actually a more slow-moving, peaceful character, with plenty of time for ambling in the forest to offset his adventures and mishaps...
Johnson explained his determined opposition to Miami Beach by saying that "Miami Beach ain't America." And as what promises to be one of the most chaotic Democratic Conventions in history poised before its opening session last night, there were many conventioneers who would second the ex-President's assessment of the city...
...inside the novel form. The tasks aren't mutually exclusive but the novel, after all, has to hold its own above the parts it's made out of, and this one seems to die whimpering before they're all brought together. A season in the chaotic life of Gary Harkness, interesting as he is, does not suffice to make a satisfying whole. DeLillo, for all his diverse talents, hasn't organized his efforts well...