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...guys," Walsh addressed the 49ers, "you know it isn't like this is your first high school game and you're afraid the coach is going to put you in." Their vapors were cured with a breath of laughter, the first move of the chess match. Though a botched kickoff return started San Francisco off on its own 6-yd. line, Walsh declined to deviate from his script of plays. When Freddie Solomon dropped pass No. 1 in the dangerous flat, Montana accepted him back in the huddle with a grin. Throwing for 331 yds. and three touchdowns, running...
...news of Ustinov's death first emerged last week after a world chess championship game was unexpectedly canceled in Moscow. The match had been scheduled for Friday evening at the House of Trade Unions, the hall where Soviet dignitaries traditionally lie in state. Questioned by a Western reporter, an elderly door attendant angrily said that Ustinov had died. Official confirmation came several hours later from Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended his trip to Britain a day early in order to return to Moscow. "We have had a great and tragic loss," Gorbachev explained before leaving Edinburgh. "Marshal Ustinov...
...Rastafarian king on his throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion more shockingly pathetic. While the characters should be raw, they need not be barbaric. They need...
Carole Lockman of Wayland, Mass., has always looked for toys that were "intellectually of good quality." But she confesses, "My 13-year-old wants anything to do with Michael Jackson." Joseph Zaitchik, a University of Lowell English professor, and his wife Holly play chess with their eight-and four-year-old sons. Some of their gifts this year will be traditional: a microscope, for example, and a baseball bat. But something new is also trundling in. Says Holly Zaitchik: "My little one is into cuddly things. He wants a Care Bear, and I've bought...
...mastery. They were, in a sense, trying to unravel the fabric of society from the inside. The most famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, said "Dada was the extreme protest against the physical side of painting, a metaphysical attitude, a blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were not street corner vandals: intellectually, they were seeking to turn art on itself and drag all of society down with it, so that mankind could start...