July is a prime time for chess, as evinced by the latest edition of Mark Crowther's splendid weekly magazine "The Week in Chess" (TWIC - www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html), which contains no fewer than 3700 games from 33 different events, currently in progress or recently finished; plus news of a further couple of dozen soon to get underway.
A young Englishman in "The Rooftop Dwellers" rather cartoonishly describes the Indian protagonist Moyna's literary magazine as "perfectly splendid, really".
As Lepore notes, Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and their polyamorous lover Olive Byrne, wrote a letter together in which they explained: "This family believes [pornographic magazines] furnish splendid material with which to teach children that the most lovely and sacred thing in the world is a real woman's body".
In the current issue of the magazine, I review the splendid new restoration and Blu-ray release of "Cleopatra," which should help to launch the movie into its deserved place in Mankiewicz's career and in the cinematic firmament.
Last year, in the magazine, I reviewed the splendid Criterion DVD of "Red Desert" and there, too, discussed Antonioni's visual attraction to industrial creations and his depiction of characters — in particular, Giuliana, played by Monica Vitti — as inseparable from them.
And a cursory look at a map showed that the road between these two classic High Sierra resorts was U.S. 395, one of those famous scenic highways that's forever turning up in magazine lists of particularly splendid drives.
James Poniewozik of Time magazine called it a "splendid" episode that "combined slapstick, authentic stakes and a holistic picture of the oddball history and commonalities that bond the folks we've come to know in Pawnee".
Also making rather splendid use of the web is FACT magazine (factmag.com).
The magazine has a busy foundation and splendid new headquarters in Chicago financed from what, in the imagined world of threadbare poets, was an eye-popping and deeply envied bequest of $200 million in 2002 from Ruth Lilly, the pharmaceutical heiress.
