Word: chessmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chessmen said they met their main competition--Yale and Toronto--earlier in the tournament than they had expected. By the time Bono arrived, the Yale match had already begun. He was only able to play four instead of the normal six games, all of which...
...queen's head, grooved with the bars of the Catalan shield, or the wacky little pyramid that balances on the needle peak of a pawn called Miss Capicua, 1987-88. Other details resurrect the images of heraldic encounter, the dungeons and dragons that lie within the shapes of chessmen. Loving the double image, Corbero is part heir to Catalan surrealism. The son and grandson of metalsmiths, he sometimes gets a bit overrefined for American taste, but his delight in odd tropes -- like making forms in basalt that conventionally would be done in metal -- has its ! own authentic motives. He remains...
...sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach make a cute couple as these last two-sort of the preteen Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Kelly...