Word: checkerboard
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Initially, two checkerboard patterns of 10.000 black and white dots, called the Julesz random-dot stereograms, were employed to test her stereoscopic vision (the ability to see two images...
...wood, five metal, two plastic-foam panels, two glass-fiber panels, and seven concrete. Romney pointed out that the selections at least involve some shift away from increasingly scarce and costly wood. For example, Shelley System of Puerto Rico uses prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked in checkerboard fashion...
...United States wei-ch'i, played in a type of checkerboard with flat stone pieces, is usually known by its Japanese name, "go." Boorman said he rarely plays it, and is interested in it chiefly as "a theoretical model of strategy...
ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by Elaine May with a crisp and zany comic flair. Adaptation, written by Miss May, is the game of life staged like a TV contest with the contestants hopping from one huge checkerboard square to another. Gabriel Dell, in a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect, is the hero who plays the adaptation game from birth to death. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco, fortyish, fat and balding, as a potential draftee called up for his physical examination. Coco gives an enormously funny and resourceful performance in McNally...
...Adaptation is that life is a game played on as well as by the contestant. The four actors play many roles: parent, child, teacher, psychologist, husband, wife, in a fiendishly swift journey through the seven ages of man. As a buzzer sounds, the contestants hop from one huge checkerboard square to another. A games master indicates roles, crises and situations, and penalties or bonuses are meted out. The play is a running spoof on psychoanalytical jargon, which has become the emotional pidgin English...