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...deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. Bobby Fischer's assertion that it is 'everything' is merely necessary monomania. As for the maniac: "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality...
...Past efforts to slow down or terminate the arms race were not successful, not-withstanding Mr. Nixon's and Mr. Brezhnev's SALT devices to cover up the arms race with trivial issues," he said...
...Shearin has applied a light but firm touch to his enterprise and his talented company, avoiding overdoing a script easily overdone and providing a fluent, entertaining piece of theater. The fast and funny domestic dialogue, like the banter in any household, conveys surprisingly complex meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because of the party's doctrinaire...
...Culture's John the Baptist. And he's a million dollar property. A paperback primer entitled The Essential Lenny Bruce sells all over the country. In it his routines and schticks are broken down into handy categories, Lenny on "Politics," "Blacks," "Jews," etc. He's been packaged into a trivial musical comedy that aims to sell a ridiculously romanticized "Lenny." And in the works is a Columbia picture, a $3 million Lenny Bruce Story to star Dustin Hoffman...
...want to work," he says, recalling Picasso-but without the fear of death. Miró has always been a reclusive figure. The stubby squared-off head above the plain business suit could belong to any Barcelona merchant. What has issued from that head is a different matter: despite many trivial or self-parodying works, Miró is the last of the great stylists of early modern art, the most poetic and formally gifted of all the surrealists. His imagination, filled with juicy ironies and wry eroticism, has enriched generations of younger artists, including Pollock and Calder...