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...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...
John G. Daugman '76 said he prefers battles of brains to those of brawn. Since his discovery of chess, he said, "I find it difficult to feel entertained by watching a pack of Goliaths, that is to say, Philistines, knocking each other down on a football field...
Just out is the first exhaustive analysis of the tactics and strategy of the world's leading proprietary board game (McKay; $5.95). Titled The Monopoly Book (what else?), it was written by Lifelong Player Maxine Brady, 33, a writer and lecturer who is married to Chess Writer and Arbiter Frank Brady. It draws on the research of mathematicians, economists and psychologists. The game's maker, Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., also will sponsor next week in Manhattan an annual World Monopoly Championship-an event from which will emerge the game's grand master. The contest will...