Word: chessboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE was enough motion on the political chessboard of Europe last week to confound even the most nimble-witted Grand Master. Wherever one turned, there seemed to be delegations hurrying to and fro, trailing position papers, press releases and calculated leaks-Germans and Arabs, Russians and Americans, Israelis and even Chinese...
...that was created, not just felt, partly by using dialogue that is more like lyrics than speech. According to traditionalist historians, there is no history, only biography. Z reverses the proposition; there are only forces, not men. Accordingly, the leading roles are the sort one would find on a chessboard. In an essentially small part, Montand is again Camus-like, at once involved and lofty. Trintignant, more through skill than script, turns the abstract notion of justice into a driven man who would shatter his career rather than bend the truth...
...example, is to suggest operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgust with which Fellini views society. "Godardesque" implies the nervous tics and mannerisms of an artist whose creative palsy can produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision. "Antonioniesque" suggests the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures. "Pennesque," "Nicholsesque," "Kubrick-esque"-the labels refuse to stick. Yet the time may not be far off when they will...
...stodgy rabbi (class of '24), his speckled-H Harvard tie clashing rather prominently with a blue pin stripe suit, voiced his agreement with Wald. "Some students maybe have a legitimate reason for protest because they don't want to be pawns on the chessboard of world politics that may get us down into a horrible hole from which we may never be able to be extricated...
...elucidate the parapolitical function of modern spying, Hagen explores the development of espionage agencies and re-examines most of the outstanding cold war spy cases, frequently offering intimate glimpses of the spies themselves. The result is a little like watching a three-dimensional chess game played on a European chessboard with flesh and blood pieces. "Pawn takes pawn" is the most chillingly frequent move, and the most desirable outcome for both sides is a stalemate...