Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn: "I was a checker player, not chess. I could only see one move ahead...
...WORLD OF CHESS by ANTHONY SAIDY and NORMAN LESSING 247 pages. Ridge Press/Random House...
...central character is Poirot, played by Albert Finney; he's like a chess player who takes on a dozen opponents simultaneously. Finney's performance is the stumbling-block to the film's otherwise smooth accomplishment of its limited purpose. Finney plays Poirot as an affable tailor's dummy of a man, who wears a hairnet and a moustache band to sleep every night, and whose moustache, indeed, doesn't move when he talks. Poirot is not the coolest of detectives; he's always in control of the situation (this is no Chinatown or Maltese Falcon) but he doesn't care...
History in part seems to bear him out. Harry Truman made his great decisions in world affairs. Dwight Eisenhower let the country run itself and satisfy those appetites that had been pinched by World War II. John Kennedy made no bones about his love of the international chess game; he spent most of his presidential time playing it. Lyndon Johnson dealt with the race problem and did bring about a basic shift in law and attitude. Finally, he was consumed by the Viet...
...score and getting off the street are like jail bars. They hold him in an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality. "I'd have a country home," says Jones, "but I would never go there, of course, because I don't like the country." He thinks of mugging "like chess." He remembers each victim precisely and prefers to work in the daytime because other "people are always rushing somewhere." In his private code, attacking women and old men is out. A middle-aged man going to fat is best, especially if he is "looking everywhere"?as people tend...