Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's outside right, Manoel ("Garrincha") dos Santos, nudged the ball delicately. A French defender charged. Casually, Garrincha faked his man out of his shoes and set up a neat play in front of the French goal. Then Garrincha took a return pass and booted away at the corner of the goal. He missed by inches, but the crowd settled back with a satisfied sigh. The final score (Brazil 5, France 2) was a foregone conclusion. Brazil's soft, pinpoint passes, incredibly skilled dribbling and booming scoring shots added up to the finest play yet seen...
Second-Story Women. The grind began in Vienna in late 1956 when Austria beat Luxembourg 7-0. Almost every month, for the next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European...
Three Conductors. The complexities of electronic composition are such that Stockhausen, although he works twelve hours a day, has completed only seven electronic compositions. He has also experimented with instrumental music, including his Piano Piece No. 11, which permits the pianist to play fragments in whatever order his eye falls on them but specifies that when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow...
...wake up. She did, promptly asking: "Is everything O.K.? Can I have a drink? I'm so thirsty!" The technique, Marmer suggested, should be limited to patients aged seven to 14 because they are the most suggestible subjects, with their "heightened powers of imagination and their ability to play a role or create a fantasy...
...anniversary issue, Mad conjures up magazines like Caveman's Weekly (sample article: "Is the Stone-Axe the Ultimate Weapon?") and the Pilgrim's Home Journal ("I Should've Kept My Big Mouth Shut," by John Alden), gives advice on how to play golf ("The grip should be about the same as one would use clutching a dead trout"), and quotes some woman-meets-native dialogue from the National Osographic: "Evelyn stepped forward and asked in Swahili, 'What I want to know, and I want you to give me a straight answer to, is-I mean...