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They later went bowling in Philadelphia and tooled around the Catskill Mountains, with Fischer at the wheel of Hillenbrand's car, to help Fischer sharpen his driving skills. When Fischer went to Buenos Aires last September to compete against Tigran Petrosian, Hillenbrand was there, and the two went restaurant-hopping between matches. "I finally found that if I put away the notebook," says Hillenbrand, "Bobby would drop his guard and reveal an extraordinarily friendly, human side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 31, 1972 | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...inner life" that is the key to his characterizations. To bring out his bad side, he plays poker-"an evil game. If you want to win you have to be vicious." To heighten his perception, he has delved into drugs, fasted and conducted sexual experiments with his wife. To sharpen his powers of concentration, he races his Formula V car. Dominique Sanda, his co-star in The Conformist, describes him as "an eye that listens attentively." Says Trintignant: "I wake up in the morning and think, 'How would my character wash his teeth?' I build up a valise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man with a Valise | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...rate Mersault concludes - like that other overweening youth Stephen Dedalus - that he was not made for love but "for the innocent and terrible dark god he would henceforth serve. To lick his life like barley sugar, to shape it, sharpen it - that was his whole passion." Instead he dies rather romantically of tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Flood of Light | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...girls have really been working hard since exams were over, and are looking forward to the Easterns on March 9," Coston said. The Mt. Holyoke meet will enable the team to "sharpen up for that meet," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Swimmers To Face Holyoke | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

Currency realignments, trade, Japan, agriculture, investment and defense -those will be big issues in the months ahead. The U.S. is determined to allocate its resources more carefully in future, to sharpen its competitive edge in world trade, and to renounce the role of global gendarme. The question is whether European leaders will be willing to pick up more burdens shed by the U.S. and make further concessions as a price for economic stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Europe's Answer to Connally | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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