Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Above the photograph, bold letters proclaimed something like. A movie about crossing boundaries exceeding limitations and giving everything you've got." A few weeks later a different ad appeared. This one showed Hemingway reaching across an empty space to a smiling Patrice Donnelly under the suggestive legend. "With a competitor...how close can you get?" Maybe the film's distributors though lesbianism would sell better than athletics. Form the second ad's rapid disappearance we can inter that it didn...
...There's no arrogance quite like that of a competitor who thinks big money makes him the sole proprietor of creativity, the father of technology and owner of the rainbow." May the crispiest crust...
...president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest but did not succeed in dislodging the king. Gianni Versace, Armani's keenest competitor, took up the historical theme with a vengeance. He weighed in quite literally with some rarefied leather and chain-mail combos that looked like rough-trade rigging that Prince Valiant might have worn to go cruising. Mariuccia Mandelli, who designs for Krizia, sent finlike flounces cascading all over suits...
...these men, in 45% of all homes with TV, tuned in the N.F.L., according to a Simmons Market Research study. That is six times as many as watch even high-rated series like Dallas. College football, with half the male total, is the N.F.L.'s nearest TV competitor. And advertisers will pay almost anything to get in on this football pool. One TV industry expert estimates that $25 million of CBS Broadcast's $300 million profit last year came from pro football...
...stands, grinning lopsidedly, the whiff of mischief strong. Straightaway, he needles his too earnest competitor from Rhode Island College (who had, after all, just called Kidd an "obnoxious fool"). "Yes, I saw last night," Kidd says, "the hideous goings-on between my honorable opponent and the lady he mentioned in his opening arguments. Is it any wonder that he would have us accept an argument that leads only to suicidal hopelessness?" The R.I.C. man, still jaunty, hums a bar of Feelings. The judge shouts, "You're losing it, Kidd!" Catcalls are tossed out promiscuously ("Lies! Lies!"), and as Kidd...