Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last driven insane by his obsession with the game. Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin is an unappealing, neurasthenic child who finds refuge from an incomprehensible world in the ordered clarity of the chessboard. The child prodigy grows to be a grand master and to play for the world championship-only to crack up from fatigue and immaturity at the crucial move of his last match...
...months, Democrats and Republicans alike have waited warily to hear the first crack of the white "backlash" vote against the excesses of the Negro revolution. And if such a vote were ever to make its sting felt in U.S. politics, it seemed certain to do so in last week's Democratic primary in Michigan's newly created 16th District...
Most of the derelict sculptures wash away with the tide. But some are such masterpieces that they regularly cause crack-ups by gawking drivers on the nearby freeway. One is a 12-ft. gallows with the 13 steps and a hanging effigy, its neck snapped at a medically correct angle. Another is a dinosaur and pterodactyl combination well planted in the muck. Last week a 17-year-old high-schooler named Wayne Saxton finished his fifth dereliction - a mammoth Viking warrior standing almost 20 ft. high. "I like Vikings," said he, as if that explained everything...
...melodies are like glue," exclaims Rosenstock. "If you listen to them, they stick." The most adhesive refrain in Huckleberry is called This Time Next Year and expresses Jim's dream of freedom. Sung by Thomas Carey, a Negro baritone from New York City, and lushly embellished by 45 crack musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and Volksoper orchestras, this hauntingly romantic song ranks with the finest of Weill's ballads...
...Mods. Despite their common heritage (Elvis) and heroes (the Beatles), the foppish Mods and sullen Rockers like nothing better than to crack one another's skulls. Two mass bashes over the Easter and Whitsuntide weekends had only whetted the teen sects' appetites for more, as excited word spread from London's Mecca Ballrooms and myriad Soho record clubs that Hastings would be the smart place to be on the long three-day Bank Holiday weekend at the beginning of August...