Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelfth game was a shocker of a different sort. For the first 16 moves, Fischer and Spassky duplicated a game played in 1936 between World Champion José Capablanca and Swedish Grand Master Gideon Stahlberg. Then Spassky, playing black, deviated and skillfully held off Fischer until both players agreed to call the game a draw after 55 moves. Before the 13th game, Fischer began complaining about the air-conditioning and the autograph hounds. Because of what he called "excessive spectator noise" in the playing hall, he demanded that the first seven rows of seats be left empty. Fischer, the Bobby...
...have launched a spoof of James' involuted style or a parody of Freudian criticism (scholars have wrangled for decades about whether the ghosts of Quint and Jessel are merely figments of the new governess's sexually starved imagination). Director-Producer Michael Winner, however, tries for a pretentious shocker in fancy dress. He serves up a pastiche of sexual sadism, witchcraft (two dolls are burned in chamber pots) and a pair of Quintessential messages: love and hate are synonymous; the dead just hang around wherever they are killed...
Here are all the ingredients for a standard shocker. Still, Updike handles his characters with a combination of controlled repugnance and tolerance that results in some very close readings of their emotional fevers. His style does not preclude tenderness, kindness or sensitivity, although he often seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission...
Countermeasures from Tokyo. Japan, which stands to lose more than any other nation under the Nixon program, showed a deepening resistance toward it. Last week five Japanese ministers traveled to Washington for an annual meeting with U.S. Cabinet members, which concentrated heavily on problems of the "Nixon shocker," as it is called in Japan. Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers made elaborate personal gestures aimed at underscoring the basic Japanese-U.S. friendship. Rogers took the delegation of visiting Japanese and their wives to a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the Kennedy Center for the Performing...
...Biggest Shocker. Avery need not have worried. The games had barely begun when it became apparent last week that the U.S. team was perhaps facing its toughest competition ever. The first surprise came in rowing, an event in which the U.S. copped six of seven first-place medals in the 1967 games. All but scuttled by crack crews from Argentina and Brazil, the U.S. oarsmen were unable to pull to a single victory. Unimpressed by Abner Doubleday's national origins, a seasoned Cuban baseball team then defeated a squad made up of U.S. collegians 4-3. The biggest shocker...