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Appropriately enough, before the match Fischer spent seven months working out at Grossinger's, the Catskill resort that is a favored training site for contending boxers. Fischer passed part of every day swimming, playing tennis, lifting weights, skipping rope, riding an Exercycle, doing sit-ups and pummeling a 300-lb. bag. "You gotta stay in shape," he says, "or it's all over." For his part, Spassky retired months ago to a dacha outside Moscow with a team of handlers. His regimen included running, swimming, yoga and daily sessions with a chess-playing psychologist...
...Business. Walker, who is in his office by 7:30 a.m. and takes home only a half-hour's work, likes to operate his company informally; he even answers his own telephone. Twice a year he huddles with a dozen top officers at Silverado, a company-owned resort in California's Napa Valley, for a free-swinging critique of operations, a management device that Walker claims stimulates his executives...
...couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki to visit their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception: there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. There, the boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them back to Tokyo; they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed the stronger of the two, suffers a stroke; her children come rushing to her sickbed. She dies, leaving her husband alone...
...seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They attain a perfect unity as they sit side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...
...Morrison communicates with his voice better than any but the best of the blues singers. Other rock singers must resort to other means: James Taylor opposes the personalness of his statement with the Appalachian flatness of his voice; Jagger relies on his onstage phyrotechnics, as does Rod Stewart; Joan Baez and Judy Collins are interpreters; Joni Mitchell catches you with words. Only Van Morrison can get to you purely with his voice...