Word: chesse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fate of Bill Clinton and his Administration will be determined by a complex debate among these zones. We are watching multidimensional chess to try to figure the king's chances of survival. If Clinton's presidency can be saved, it will happen because two very different dynamics--forgiveness and, surprisingly, popular indifference--will interact...
...brings to Clinton's defense a criminal-law background that includes the only type of cases whose consequences can make impeachment seem trivial: death-penalty appeals. He made that his specialty during the 1970s as an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer. To build a relationship with his condemned clients, he would play chess with them by postcard, with as many as nine miniature boards of partly played games cluttering his cramped office at any given time. And Kendall once had to be restrained from throwing a punch at a burly warden who refused to allow his doomed client John Spenkelink...
...qualify as critical cult objects--survive on funding from Britain, Japan and Germany, where they are art-house staples. If not for this offshore financing, Hartley, 38, might be working as a radio repairman or a garbageman--jobs that keep his heroes occupied when they aren't playing chess with their gnarly demons. That could change with Henry Fool, the intimate epic that made a splash at festivals last year and has now opened in U.S. movie houses. No less quirkish and studied than his earlier films, this one has an expansiveness, a rowdiness and emotional generosity, that flows directly...
...Managers who apparently have confused themselves with chess masters, replacing pitchers after almost every batter in the late innings...
Sitting outside at Au Bon Pain is a great place to people watch or challenge a friend to a game of chess...