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There are two types of plays in Tiddlywinks. One is potting--what laymen usually consider the object of the game--to get the winks in the cup at the center of the playing field. But tactics depend on squopping--immobilizing other players' winks by landing on them. Points are tallied at the end to determine the winner: one point for every unsquopped wink and three for each potted...
...image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck with sweat. The earh resounds under the pounding of great hoofs. For an instant, we forget the object of this chase, so intoxicated are we by the fluidity of the horse's movement...
...main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations. My opera, Escorial, to a text by Michel de Gilderone, is a return to the Theater of the Absurd, popular in the '20s, but in a very contemporary style. In a sense, Napoleon is a film-opera. The San Fransisco Opera has even included it in the subscription part of its season...
...object of all the apprehension is New Mexico State Penitentiary, surely the nation's most notorious prison...
Gossip goes in for the negative, not the positive. It is no doubt meanspirited. "If gossip favors, even enjoys, dirt (the failings of character)," wrote the critic John Leonard, "it is because we suspect ourselves, and the suspicion is a shrewd one." Yet, oddly, people do not seem to object to being gossiped about as much as they once did. After all, as macrogossip has instructed, any gossip is a form of attention, a sort of evanescent celebrity. Even gossip works to keep away what Saul Bellow called "the wolf of insignificance." Privacy is not the highest priority...