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...attempt to make chess more sponsor friendly, he compressed the traditional two-year championship schedule into a more dramatic three-week tournament. He sweetened the pot with liberal infusions of cash from his deep pockets and sped up the game clock, discarding the time-honored classical chess format, in which players spend hours elaborating intricate moves, in favor of rapid chess, an adrenalized variant in which each game lasts just 50 minutes. "Chess had to be commercialized. Investment had to be brought in," Ilyumzhinov insists. That must be what he had in mind when he staged the 1999 world championships...
...cinematographer James Wong Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size. Even the videocassette format provides a feral pleasure, as Howe's camera prowls the New York nighttown like an accomplice. Or a conscience. Or like Sidney, always on the make and on the move, ratlike, in the dark...
...problem. Television has changed significantly since the show debuted during the Iranian hostage crisis 22 years ago. Cable news provides a 24-hour outlet for wonky debate, and the Internet brings headlines home in something akin to real time. Koppel and his producers have wisely adjusted the show's format, shifting from headline news to more in-depth, prerecorded pieces. "The result has been a set of brilliant programs," raves Iger...
...advancing to the ECAC semis, the Crimson swept Brown in a best-of-three series. For the semifinal and final rounds of the tournament, the format is single elimination, so the Crimson will have no margin for error in Lake Placid...
...Cover Girl, have an office employing more than 200 people in Wal-Mart’s small-town Arkansas headquarters. Its logistics and distribution system is smart enough to know which ethnicities of Barbie sell better in which stores. It pioneered the “big box” format and continues to extend it with bigger and better stores and different brands like Sam’s Club...