Word: chess
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...Kauffman, a Jewish English teacher, wants to find himself. Phil D'Amico, an Italian photographer, wants to be a Jewish intellectual. They both fall in love with the same woman, both accompany her to the hospital when she bears one of them a child, take saunas together and play chess. In short, they are two-thirds of an isosceles triangle. But still, Willie and Phil is not a movie about this menage a trois as much as about the times...
...monumental achievement. "I've served in nine presidential-appointed offices, but nothing was as tough and complex as this," said Elliot Richardson, the chief U.S. delegate to the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. "It was like playing no-limit poker and three-dimensional chess at the same time." Richardson, who served as both Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the Nixon Administration, was talking about the negotiations for a Law of the Sea treaty, which came to a virtual conclusion last week after six years of deliberations. The climactic conference...
Arkady Polishchuk New York City Incredible! A whole issue devoted to the Soviet Union without once mentioning chess...
...victims: Aksyonov was brought up in one of the infamous orphanages called Homes for the Children of Enemies of the People. Few writers can reproduce the lingering stench of brutality and fear better than he. In his story Victory, a gem of Russian short fiction, a chance game of chess on a train between a brutish but canny player and an intellectual becomes a moral life and death struggle...
...turning his back on celebrity, suspending all recording activity and curtailing most of his concerts. He returned to Milan for a few more years of musical study and reflection; he sought out the reclusive pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for lessons; he read philosophy and pursued his passion for chess...