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...journalist seemed bitter or at least unimpressed by I.F. Stone's sudden emergence as the white knight of journalism. Otten allowed that Stone's distance from normal journalistic circuits preserved him from making concessions to sources or "getting tied up with sources...
...compensate for my shallow theoretical background, I played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
Gould's Marlowe is half-knight and half-clown, struggling against a city's corrupting power. He constantly mumbles to himself to convince himself that he's really a private eye, like someone else would pinch himself to make sure he's not dreaming. Marlowe's Los Angeles is constantly alight with all-night supermarkets, all-night traffic, all-night venality. He is awake to the phonies and moral bankrupts around him, and the audience sees L.A. as he sees it. The restless, light-drenched photography (by Altman veteran Vilmos Zsigmond), and nervy editing and soundtrack express the visual...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...
...other Knight dailies: the Akron Beacon-Journal, Boca Raton (Fla.) News, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and Ledger, Detroit Free Press, Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, Macon (Ga.) News and Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and the Tallahassee Democrat...