Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arkin knows. "It was the only part I've ever worked on which didn't demand a conception," says Arkin, "because there isn't much difference between me and Yossarian." Viewing Arkin in the film of Catch-22 is like watching Lew Alcindor sink baskets or Bobby Fischer play chess. The man seems made for the role. Fear rides on his back like a schizoid chimp. His voice climbs from neurosis...
...Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually settles for less...
...with Sisco, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban reiterated his government's feeling that it is time for the Arabs to make a gesture toward peace. In a similar vein, Eban told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin shortly before Sisco's visit: "We can't go on playing chess by making all the moves. We have made all the moves...
Turf Accountants. Trying to regulate gambling is a centuries-old story in Britain. Henry III ordered his clergy to forgo dicing and chess playing "on pain of durance vile," but he lost so often to his barons at those very games that he was unable to come through with all the money he had pledged for the completion of Westminster Abbey. In feudal times, incorrigible gamblers had their hands whacked off. Henry VIII, who diced for the chapel bells of old St. Paul's-and lost-decreed the less painful punishment of fines in the Unlawful Games...
...stylized pieces bring the familiar tactics of confrontation to the chess board; as the game progresses, a paddy wagon may remove a hippie, and a guru may outmaneuver a tactical patrolman. The chess set, created by a local artist, Jackie Pearl, has one major drawback: only the Establishment can afford the check, mate. It costs...