Word: checkerboarding
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Harvard had to wait almost six minutes to tie the score. With Friar Dan Haskins off for tripping, the icemen's deliberate, checkerboard passing eventually found McDonald alone five feet in front of the net. The newcomer responded with his first goal of the year, with assists going to pointmen Jim Trainor and Bob Leckie...
...THERE WERE such a thing as a death wish for albums, this one would have it--it is a record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy...
...called because it was played with the pasteboard tops then used on glass milk bottles. They were plain on one side and had the name of the dairy printed on the other. The playing board was a piece of manila paper marked off in 64 squares like a checkerboard. We called it the depression game...
California Pollster Mervin Field interpreted the election results as a "checkerboard pattern." Property owners, the elderly and people on fixed incomes voted for Barbagelata. Minorities, renters, and the relatively young opted for Moscone. The election, said Field, shows two kinds of tides. "One is the ebbing tide of traditional liberal, labor and cultural concepts-the idea that government can do it for you. Against this is the rising tide of the 'new conservatism'-which is related to fear about crime, the inability to get services from government, and fiscal responsibility." Both candidates agreed that the election showed...
...amorphous atmosphere of Night Moves, Moseby's inability to finish anything off makes sense. It's night that's moving--an inexplicable rumbling in the distance, and Moseby's delusion is that he's moving a knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the checkerboard is a great swarm, with no one heading anywhere. Moseby hasn't got a chance of wrestling this free-for-all into the neat conformity he likes: once his blocks are set up, the whole construct just tumbles down again...