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Elegant Game. Such were some of the cat-and-mouse games being played before this week's scheduled opening of the world championship of chess between Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky in Reykjavík. It was bizarre that the orderly, elegant old game could be at the center of such a ruckus. But then ruckus raising is Fischer's specialty. Four years ago, he withdrew from international competition, accusing the "lying, cheating Russians" of denying him the world title that was rightfully his. Eighteen months later he stormed right back, knocking off one grand master...
Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
...scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody can hit his thumb; a cat-shaped traveling bag with handles and a perforated Plexiglas nose for taking one's pet tabby on a trip; an "absorbent bottle" made out of sponge, "to double its capacity"; and an undulating Ping Pong table, to "project the ball unpredictably...
...food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had a greedy and hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when your homeland's turning into an inferno, the seaside's not at all a bad place...