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...players and the running time clocks. The other shows the latest board position. Scattered about are a score of the greatest players in the world, a couple of whom are standing at the front trying dozens of follow- on combinations on a large demonstration board. The result is a tumult of lightning analysis, inspired second-guessing, withering criticism, contemptuous asides, suggestions and refutations as the pros search for the best possible "lines" into the future...
...prestigious and influential, if less lucrative, magazine and book divisions run by Donald's older brother S.I. Jr., known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed...
...Chinese figures the world came to know in the course of last year's tumult, the most memorable was anonymous: that wiry young man who halted a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square by simply standing in front of them. Later, human rights groups identified the man as Wang Weilin, the 19-year-old son of a Beijing factory worker. Wang was reportedly arrested soon after his brave deed and accused of being a "counterrevolutionary, a traitor and a political hooligan" who attempted to subvert members of the army. Because of the severity of the charges, it was widely feared...
...prestigious magazine and book divisions, the shadowy family style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and -- increasingly -- by tumult...
Born in Dublin, O'Connor watched her parents split up "quite violently" when she was eight. Her brother responded to the domestic tumult by "fainting all the time." O'Connor's sister began having extensive conversations with strangers in bus stations. And Sinead turned wild. She was busted for shoplifting and sent off first to reform school, then to boarding school. By the time her mother died in a car crash, her daughter hadn't seen her for nearly two years. "Her life never got better," O'Connor says, "and I suppose it was just as well that she died...