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...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...
...interest in taking over Pan Am, the ban continued through week's end. Jim Crosby was rapidly learning that, as Gray put it, "the airline business is unique. It involves something more than just business with a dollar sign. It should not become a pawn on a chessboard in a financial game for profits. Pan Am is a king...
...Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer and engineer grapple over the game board as lives are changed, ruined and revived. Or are they? The writer's story becomes the film's own plot; illusion and reality...
...figures on a chessboard stand out in remarkable three-dimensional clarity on a two-dimensional "hologram...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...