Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians have no trouble getting heated up about Fischer. The Soviet press calls him nyekulturny (uncultured), a "temperamental child" whose "endless whims" and "absurd
...been calculated that if every man, woman and child in the world were to spend every waking hour playing at the superhuman rate of a game a minute, it would take 217 billion years to exhaust all the variations on the first ten moves. Chess is an endless labyrinth that can both mesmerize and anesthetize. Alone, perhaps, among the games of civilized man, its depths have never been fully plumbed, its possibilities calculated and codified. To Benjamin Franklin it taught "foresight, circumspection, caution and the habit of not being discouraged by our present affairs." For Lenin it was "the gymnasium...
...remarkably industrious use. Some delegates plunged into swimming pools and the Fontaine-bleau's Boom Boom Room, some took in the Eden Roc's "Love Machine" erotica or listened to Pearl Williams, a road-company Sophie Tucker, at the Place Pigalle. But mostly they talked earnestly among themselves, taking endless notes. They seemed to treat Miami Beach as a curious rococo phenomenon, something beside the point...
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is the fourth installment in an apparently endless series of simian science fiction (TIME, June 5). For a while, each chapter (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America...
...rules-all of which must be approved by the delegates. Floor parades with hired bands and conscripted enthusiasts are forbidden. Nominating and seconding speeches for each candidate will be limited to a total of 15 minutes-or so the rules optimistically provide. All but gone will be the endless procession of nominating speeches for favorite sons; now a candidate must prove he has substantial support in at least three states before his name can be put up for nomination. The unit rule, which was voted down at the 1968 convention, is now abolished, ending the 140-year-old practice under...