Show J2 m THE WASHINGTON P MAGAZINE OST Bv Richard Thomas The Heed Puzzle" PUZZLE Each of the creatures ia this political bestiary is associated with a cine below See if you can match them ap AT T a Green Piece GREAT BRITAIN CZARIST RUSSIA TAMMANY HAM REPUBLICAN PARTY PEACE UNITED STATES 44 Green 46 Krises - 1 5 10 14 19 20 :ir 21 tv 22 '4- - Bit of in Burgundy tiff MEXICO SOVIET UNION 48 Regardless of whether 49 Gotham player Indicators Cry of frustration Play a ukulele Dorothy's pet Believe Feline king Cry over sprit milk Happy Days 60 Per -61 First office ' 62 La Scala's home 65 MTV watchers often 66 Fully marbled J 67 Flunk out j 68 Way to take a risk i 70 Quebec connections 72 Enumerate I 74 Cape Town currency 75 Env additions 78 Above it all 81 Field mice 82 A Gibb y 83 Pummel 1 84 Sugar and J spice confection ! PROGRESSIVE PARTY proscenium 55 Serve the purpose 56 Com 57 Deutschland uber " 62 Ethical 63 Pointless 64 Finishes a flight 65 Lessee 69 Joel Chandler S3 52 GERRYMANDERING FRANCE FARM WORKERS briefly 51 Sicilian spouter 53 Behind the m 23 She gets whatever she wants 24 Green if 27 Collared iib 29 Mom's sister I 30 Delphic i predictions 31 Green 35 Independent Ross a and wife Margot :c- 36 DC summer v! setting 37 No longer i u i t available 38 It shields gram from rain 42 Gobs 43 Aloha gifts 45 Windblown soil 47 Keepsake 50 Art medium 52 Green 54 Thailand's king 58 Eight make a gal 59 Moran of Party animals by Don Rubin TIT -- SUNDAY March 15 1998 PUZZLES & GAMES jfalf okr Sribnnr Q3e WAR JOIN OR DIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BLACK POWER Harris uncle 71 73 76 77 79 80 Cast Lasting starter Physicist Marie More like a fox Frozen food brand Famed London theater 85 Emergency conveyance 88 Con corollary 90 Tone down Judas Maccabseus' for one 92 Tom 94 Loosens up 96 Apple fan 98 Antilles jaunt 99 Philanthropist 91 85 Lott or Daschle for short 86 It's sometimes more 87 Green 89 Aftershock 93 More in need of vacuuming 95 Receiver's opposite number 97 Auld lang syne 98 Kin group 100 Aphrodite's ion 102 Sought pearls maybe 104 Rather or Rowan 105 Brand of shades 108 Green 111 Bleak and forbidding 14 Cuss out 15 Green 16 Theater district Sacre- -! 114 Sophia's 112 Cards' city 2 Conceptual bummer husband 1 115 Green 120 Damages 122 Here am 3 Drowned world fro 4 5 Trips from me: Isaiah 123 Friend of Otter and Mole 124 Hall of Fame 129 Light gas activity 26 Byz successor in a way penthouse topoorhouse footballers Herberor Weinmelster 125 Keep (persist) 126 Heraldic greens 127 Hardens 128 Lord of La Mancha 17 Agitation 18 Hodgepodge 25 Centers of 28 Id conclusion 31 Seaweed 32 Match end 6 Wrath 7 Aardvark entree 8 Soft toss 9 Fume 10 Ken 11 Give a clue 12 Dropoff 13 At the peak briefly 33 Tittering sound 34 On shaky ground 39 Phelps's TV erg 40 City on the Aire vincit amor" 41 Exhibitions can be thrill for amateur BY SHELBY LYMAN Mary 101 Rushed 103 ER notation 106 Uru neighbor 107 Egg holders 109 Star Wars" in which an expert player quickly walking from board to board takes on several dozen amateurs at one time can be an electrifying occasion for the amateur It offers an opportunity to confront a top player and on occasion to have ones wildest dream come true: a win or a draw against greatness The odds are of course strongly skewed The expert sees and understands mere in a glance at the board than his typical opponent does in the much longer time at his disposal The final scores are almost always one sided In an exhibition of 30 or 40 games a chess master or grandmaster will usually draw and lose no more than a handful of games The mother of all exhibitions was given in 1984 in Cologne Germany by the Czech grandmaster Vlasti-m- il Hort Playing 663 games in 33 hours he scored more than 80 percent on the chessboard while dropping almost seven pounds of body weight The advantage of the stronger player persists even against very accomplished opponents On several occasions Garry Kathe highest sparov ranked grandmaster in his- - ' has played national tory teams of five or six players with very simultaneously director 110 Spin dr 111 Old Hebrew month 112 Kerouac for one 113 Youths 116 Till 117 Mine find wm m TRICKY RICKY KANE Every answer is a rhyming pair of words (like FAT CAT Instructions: Us onfy single numbsrs in blanks 2 Catouiato esc row across to equal the total at the right 3 Catenate each ootomn to squat the total at tha bottom 4 Tha numbers down the right column must be the same as the total numbers screes the bottom and DOUBLE TROUBLE) and they will fit in the letter squares The number after the definition tells you how many syllables in each word 1 -- Extii-n-m agmm-- - a IIHDDI 0 TTIHH TILLS k XHDITJ XH9IN '8 SOVOH SOVOP Clue To The Tout: Length in Feet of Nautical Mile t S8W8 SHOU I 8H3MSNV $ iCISi iffi m 1! fit M BAm E mmmtm m y ii Najdorf 1 M w'"M IA P ''AA AA mm abcdefgh JR Celser BLACK TO PLAY P -- &P WHITE GETS A NEW QUEEN Hint Key is a nice block- ing move JQ ieejqi tsN I 8Py tpgpxy :uojino$ ' eqi tjijM i favorable results Exhibitions are special occasions for children to whom in fantasy and reality all things are possible I have watched both Kasparov and Boris Spassky generously cede draws during simultaneous play to enraptured school chidren The message was clear to every child present: You can do it too Simultaneous play embraces all ages Thirty years ago I played a 91 year-old man during an exhibition in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico Each time I arrived at his board the nonagenarian had to be awakened to make his move After 18 moves we agreed to a draw Playing without sight of the board adds an additional and even more extraordi- - a tA V 10)84 CHESS yw p ia iabcdefgh 'ty m m m m n W'4 m A face-to-fa- 118 Hoofer Miller 119 AFL partner 121 RR depot VOUDY CURDY BEGINNER'S CORNER SOLVE-I- T after 15 Rgl A simultaneous exhibition - nary dimension Below is a win from a 1947 simultan-ou- s blindfold exhibition by Miguel Najdorf in Sao Paulo Brazil JR Celser Najdorf 1 e4 e5 2 Bc4 3 Nf3 40-- 0 5 c3 ' 6 d3 7 N(b)d2 8 a3 9 h3 10 b4 11 12 13 14 15 Bc5 Nc6 d6 Bb6 Bg4 he : Qb3 g5 Bh5 Nf6 g4 ' Nh2 hxh3 Qd7 gxh3 Khl xh3 Rgl Ng4 ' White resigns Note (a): Threatening both 16 Qxh2 mate and 13 Nxf2 mate with a winning attack Civil Wars over but Rebel is still fighting members of Yankee race LEAD STORIES Henry Ingram Jr told the Savannah (Ga) Morning News in February that he intends to bar ail northerners from t setting fool bit any part of Iiis reacquired 1600 acres along US ticently - 17 near Hardeeville SC and he recorded a deed restriction mak-in- g that official The ban applies to members of the "Yankee race (through birth or at least a years resi- dence) to anyone named Sherman the Union general) and to anyone with a last name that is an anagram of Sherman Ingram is upset at the recent development of Hilton Head Island and other picturesque vistas in the area t UNew Scientist magazine announced ypin January that Australian biologist J toger Short has applied for funding from the US National Institutes of Jlealth because he believes he can grow Shuman sperm extraordinarily efficiently the testicles of mice by injecting inside ' them with human testes cells The Los Angeles Times reported in January on the unusual sustained suc- cess in turbulent economic times of Cat Theatef of Moscow Russia shows remain sold out whose 300-seweeks in advance Despite conventional ''Wisdom that cats are untrainable Yuri Kuklachev has them climb- mg poles walking tightropes pushing toy trains leapfrogging over human backs and balancing atop tiny platforms NEWS OF THE WEIRD feces-smear- (af-lvt- -- BAD IDEAS -- In January in Zinnowitz Germany I history lesson that turned bad According to the lawsuit the kids were forced to portray slaves on a ship under disgusting circumstances by being shackled with masking tape being paddled and being imprisoned in a shower stall (with dirty diapers waved in their faces) to simulate slave-shi- p stench A man was arrested in Anaheim Calif in November and charged with robbing a credit union He attracted the attention of police officers while walking down a street several hours after the robbery In the time between the robbery and the arrest police said the man had broken into an apartment and taken a business suit for a change of clothes but for some reason thought that he ought to change his shoes as well despite the fact that the shoes he came away wearing were fuzzy pink slippers Said police Sgt Joe Vargas He couldnt give us a logical reason for wearing the slippers While the questioning continued the apartment burglary report came over the police radio mentioning the slippers B In November Portsmouth Va Circuit Judge Von Piersall dismissed charges against former high school track coach John W Crute 47 who bad clandestinely made videotapes of girls in a locker room Despite the fact that the girls were captured in full frontal nudity Judge Piersall said the tapes were not lewd under Virginia law because they portray mere nudity Piersall was not even persuaded by the fact that interspersed among the shots of CHUCK SHEPHERD according to an Associated Press re- port two skinheads in a billiard hall hurled several racial insults at Cuban pro boxer Juan Carlos Gomez who is in town training for his next fight Gomez punched one man in the face and the skinheads left Three days later a larger group of skinheads waited to confront Gomez and his entourage in front of their hotel and resumed the insults Again Gomez punched one of them in the face and the skinheads left B The Denver Post reported in September that Jenny Roper earlier in the year was ordered to pay her estranged husband $4000 under Colorados no- fault divorce law despite the fact that he was at the time awaiting trial for hiring someone to kill her (and for which he was later convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison) B In September four special education students in Howe Okla filed a lawsuit against the school system their principal and a teacher for a creative k ed the girls Crute had spliced scenes from hard-cor- e pornographic videos B In November Lenexa Kan police chief Ellen Hanson purchased an airline ticket in her name to go to a police conference but had to change plans because of a family illness Rather than have the department purchase another ticket for her substitute officer Dawn Layman Chief Hanson made up an official police ID card with her name and Laymans face to present to the airline clerk Someone tipped off the airline on the return trip and after some heavy explaining Chief Hanson apologized The Associated Press revealed in November that Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua NH may be violating state law by employing as a teacher a man Shawn McEnany 35 who had been convicted of sexual assault McEnany was hired in 1990 despite two misdemeanors for unlawful sexual contact but a school spokesman said that McEnany was not a risky hire because in 1990 the school was for boys only and McEnanys 1988 conviction involved a girl fl In July 1997 the Texas Supreme Court threw out a $7 million lower court judgment for a girl who was born without fingers on her right hand allegedly due to her mothers having taken the controversial morning-sicknes- s drug Bendectin Dejected the girls lawyers filed a motion in November asking the court to reconsider its decision but referring to the justices as the nine nutty professors and saying they consti- - 4 tuted the fourth horseman of the apocalypse (along with Pestilence Death and Famine) The motion was denied In October Lyman Ray Postoak Jr 44 was found guilty of armed robbery in Oklahoma City undoubtedly with the assistance of two decisions that he made for himself First he chose to act as his own lawyer during the two-da- y trial Second contrary to convention Postoak chose to wear his orange coveralls in front of the jury telling the judge he felt more comfortable in jail clothes Sentences are frequently long ones in Oklahoma and this jury gave Postoak 125 years jail-issue- d O UPDATES ON WEIRD CHARACTERS Odell Sheppard (News of the Weird 1997) was jailed ia Chicago in 1987 at age 40 for contempt of court for failing to give the whereabouts of his daughter Deborah then 2 in a y dispute He was finally released Jan 28 1998 after Deborahs mother passed away ending the dispute And a Norwegian astrophysics student 39 (News of the Weird 1993) who was first barred from Oslo University at age 22 because he refused to bathe filed a lawsuit in January against the Norwegian government in order to place the matter before the European Court of Human Rights child-custod- Send Weird News to Chuck Shepherd PO Box 8306 St Petersburg Fla 33738 or welrdcompuservecein k V |