Chess has a protean ability to keep up with the times and the changing requirements of time itself.Seventy or eighty years ago, chess seemed unvaryingly slow to the unsympathetic observer. Today, courtesy of modern chess timers and custom, you may play an entire game - casual or tournament - in one minute or six hours.Read more:
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(By Lawrence Toppman, Theater Critic) Father's unhappy boyhood prevents him from expressing love for his troubled children. Mother stifles in a cozy home, after renouncing her career as an actress and failing to live up to her husband's expectations. This is entertainment for the whole family? For whom, the Henrik Ibsens?Not at all. Beloved tunes by the Sherman Brothers are the spoonfuls of sugar that help the dramatic medicine go down in "Mary Poppins," which was nominated for seven Tony Awards and opens the Broadway Lights series Wednesday at Belk Theater.Read more:
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(By Eric G. Wilson, Correspondent) Newsroom drama has always made for good cinema. "His Girl Friday," "All the President's Men," "State of Play" - these are only a few of the popular movies featuring idealistic reporters hungry for truth, editors wearily pushing for a scoop, the consuming chaos of the deadline.In "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist," a charming and wistful memoir, Laurie Hertzel engagingly evokes this romantic world while also tracking its decline in the age of the Internet.Read more:
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(By Charles J. Gans, Associated Press) In a career spanning half a century, Abbey Lincoln turned her back on the image-makers who wanted to turn her into a Marilyn Monroe in sepia. Instead, she chose to go her own way as an uncompromising jazz singer, songwriter, actress and civil rights advocate.Lincoln died Aug. 14 in New York at age 80.Read more:
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(By Michael Weinstein, Features editor) We're back from hiatus with the winners of our T-shirt contest. A few weeks ago we asked you to tell us about your favorite t-shirt.The winner is Sheilah Plonk of Fort Mill, S.C. She wins the Unofficial Charlotte Observer T-shirt Collection (seven shirts not available in any store, online or TV shopping network. For now, anyway).Read more:
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(By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle) Anthony Geffen has made a documentary that could just as easily be filed under romance. It's about a love triangle - unusual because the home-wrecking third party is the largest mountain in the world."The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest" explores the life of George Mallory, making a case that he reached the peak of Everest in 1924, nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary was credited with the feat.Read more:
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