Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bury a lawbreaker's corpse (shown as a mummy with a bloody sword in its chest). Favoring burial is the swashbuckling Teukros (Gintaras Valiulis); against burial are the petulant and imperious Menelaos (Elliot Thomson) and Agamemnon (Joe Song). All it seems to boil down to, though, is a contest among the three to strike the grandest pose, shout the loudest, and sneer the most...
...rest of the contest featured tighter defense than the squads had exhibited in their two previous meetings. The first two-and-a-quarter games played between Harvard and MIT were offensive displays, with 43 goals in just over 54 minutes of action. But neither team scored between Pratt's goal and the close of the third quarter...
...fashioned bank methods are losing that contest. Increasingly, a chorus of experts, including Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, seem to agree that without changes in banking rules that go back half a century, more and more of those institutions will be pressed to the financial wall. Many, indeed, are already there. In general, banking profitability has been deteriorating for the past 15 years, and an estimated 25% of the country's 14,000 banks are losing money this year. U.S. banks, says Paul Baastad, an analyst at the San Francisco brokerage of S.G. Warburg & Co., are under "tremendous pressure...
...California childhood (straitened but not so impoverished as Nixon later claimed), Whittier College, Duke University Law School, service as a naval officer in the backwash of the war in the Pacific, successful Republican campaign for Congress in 1946, Red hunting, Alger Hiss, the Senate in 1950 (after a bitter contest against "the pink lady," Helen Gahagan Douglas), Ike and the vice presidency in 1952. Ambrose's account of this progress throws a few details into intriguing relief. The young Nixon ("Gloomy Gus" to family and classmates) was regarded as emotionally pinched but unimpeachably honest. Old friends from Whittier could scarcely...
...West End in 1984. That production suffered, however, from a bland and uninteresting Eliza. On Broadway she is played by Tony Winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God), a ferocious comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest. Instead Plummer finds in Eliza a serene dignity and natural goodness that permeate even the character's most hyperkinetic moments and make her a perfect counterpoint to the low, aimless "undeserving poor" epitomized by Eliza's beguilingly frank rascal of a father, Alfred Doolittle (Sir John Mills...