Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Awarded the Soviet Badge of Honor and a medal For Valiant Labor, Spassky lives in a modern Moscow high-rise with his second wife Larisa, who is an engineer, and their son. Of his first wife he says: "We were like bishops of opposite color." His $500 monthly income from exhibition matches and as chess coach of Locomotiv, a railway-union sports club, is one of the highest in the Soviet Union. Despite these rewards, Spassky has refused to join the Communist Party. "If Boris were a writer or a composer," says one grand master from an Iron Curtain country...
...Knight chain's Miami Herald, using color photos and an airy makeup, had the most effective presentation, mixing solid analytical pieces by Knight specialists with such fascinating fluff as the revelation that Walter Cronkite lines up his navel with an arrow on his desk in order to center himself for CBS cameras. Knight showed enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national...
...plunged into daily journalism for the Chicago Sun-Times with a cub reporter's drive and determination. From interviews with intimates of Lyndon Johnson in Miami Beach, Wallace pieced together an effective word picture of the ex-President sulking at home last week: "He's got three color television sets going at the same time, and he's watching an alien political party that still bears the name of the party he loved go about nominating as its presidential candidate a man he detests with passion...
...literary cadences of The New English Bible and the translator's precision of the American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man. It may be just a shade too enthusiastic in its use of exclamation points ("Then he heard a voice!"), and sometimes a bit of color seems to be lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy...
...varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled his 26-minute score with bold slashes of color, rich turns of melody and moments of high dramatic point, all much to Conductor Kertesz's obvious relish. The Symphonic Variations, on the other hand, is Dvořák at his nonprogrammatic best - the Old World side of the man who wrote the "New World" Symphony...