Word: chessmen
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...picture often has the flashy moves of a chess patzer. Phone books are smashed and chessmen trashed. Josh plays catch in a sepulchral chess club, inhabited by a veritable cuckoo's nest of chess nuts. The movie also distorts the chess education of this bantam Rocky. It has Josh learning almost equally from Pandolfini (Ben Kingsley) and a kindly street hustler (Laurence Fishburne). In fact, Pandolfini was the boy's main teacher. Kingsley does have a charismatic gravity and the carriage of -- Fred Waitzkin's phrase -- "a ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great...
...chessmen said they met their main competition--Yale and Toronto--earlier in the tournament than they had expected. By the time Bono arrived, the Yale match had already begun. He was only able to play four instead of the normal six games, all of which...
...queen's head, grooved with the bars of the Catalan shield, or the wacky little pyramid that balances on the needle peak of a pawn called Miss Capicua, 1987-88. Other details resurrect the images of heraldic encounter, the dungeons and dragons that lie within the shapes of chessmen. Loving the double image, Corbero is part heir to Catalan surrealism. The son and grandson of metalsmiths, he sometimes gets a bit overrefined for American taste, but his delight in odd tropes -- like making forms in basalt that conventionally would be done in metal -- has its ! own authentic motives. He remains...
...sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach make a cute couple as these last two-sort of the preteen Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Kelly...
...Gordes in the South of France. So when Actor Curt Jurgens invited him for a few games at his villa in nearby Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Vasarely arrived with chess set in hand. And not just any old set. The artist himself had designed the Plexiglas board and chessmen. Says Vasarely modestly: "It is an immense pleasure for the eye." He now plans to sell signed and numbered copies of his creation. The price...