Word: chessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gordes in the South of France. So when Actor Curt Jurgens invited him for a few games at his villa in nearby Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Vasarely arrived with chess set in hand. And not just any old set. The artist himself had designed the Plexiglas board and chessmen. Says Vasarely modestly: "It is an immense pleasure for the eye." He now plans to sell signed and numbered copies of his creation. The price...
...movie and thinks about it hard, does not let details float wrong. He knows how to mount an assault, and he knows how to do it without taking facile roads. He has been accused, as systematically as he works, of the inability to interiorize, and of treating people like chessmen, even checkers. Paths of Glory serves as an ample refutation to that. He has also been accused of not knowing how to work actors, of demeaning them and consciously turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director...
...society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...
Come back he did. On a March afternoon in 1970, he strode resolutely across the stage of the Dom Sindikata Theater in Belgrade, sat down behind two ranks of white chessmen, reached across the table and shook hands with former World Champion Petrosian, shoved the king's pawn two squares forward, punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro...