Word: primer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desperate Attempt. Sniffing and sipping hot tea while he fought off a cold, Bobby began the second game by boldly launching an early attack without first castling his king into a protected corner-a basic defensive maneuver taught in every chess primer. That indiscretion proved costly; it ultimately gave Petrosian an opportunity to pin Fischer's exposed king in a devastating crossfire. Backed into a corner after the 32nd move, Fischer pondered his plight for ten minutes and then resigned. His win streak ended at 20 straight, Bobby suddenly seemed to lose his momentum...
...berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
...activities suggested in the booklet are as innocuous. Young ecoactivists are urged to check the contents of detergents used by their mothers and "encourage your family to change brands and select ones which do not create as great a pollution threat." Sounding a bit like a primer for Red Guards, the booklet also advises children to "photograph every pollutant detected"-not only results of their own experiments but any debris found behind factories, stores and offices or in the streets, parks and rivers. Reporting the results of pollution tests to the proper authorities will create a stir, the kids...
...Wellington uses; the youthful student or amateur will at least learn the elementary strategies of the period and enjoy an eagle's view of the battle that changed Europe's life. As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy...
...involuted politics compressed into the twelve-part series fuddled British audiences, and even Alistair Cooke, who opens each episode with a primer for Yanks, seems a mite confused. Viewers are just as well off ignoring the incomprehensible Popish Plot and other games of succession to concentrate on the sexual politics and the wigs-off look at the life-style of the 17th and 18th century British court. It is perfectly clear, for instance, why Churchill came home from Continental wars so lovelorn that he dove into bed with Sarah without taking time to remove his spurs...