Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, to do them! The more you paint, the nearer you get to something. You must do as many as possible." This obsessed machismo resembles nothing so much as a displacement of sex into art: the furious production of Picasso's old age is an exact pictorial counterpart to the catalogue of seductions by Mozart's Don Giovanni, whose promiscuity was a shield against death...
...this was no ordinary thief. Eight days after the robbery, the phone rang in the office of Walter Schwilden. an editor at Brussels' Le Soir. The caller identified himself as Till Eulenspiegel, the legendary German counterpart of Robin Hood. Till declared that he wanted nothing for himself. He demanded a ransom of $4,000,000, paid to a relief organization for East Pakistan refugees...
...counterpart in a red jersey, Rod Foster, didn't feel too wonderful after the game either. Foster racked up three interceptions and 33 yards passing in his second miserable game in a row. However, the lack of offensive balance didn't matter much, as Harvard's talented running backs ripped off 235 yards rushing and three touchdowns behind some excellent blocking...
Though the KGB's foreign directorate has a smaller staff, it fields more agents than its American counterpart. Says a U.S. intelligence official: "The Soviets not only are very good, but they also outnumber the U.S. by a factor of at least two." Both agencies are adept at dirty tricks. "We still try to get them with broads, or find out the homosexuals, or if they have debts," admits a top CIA man. One U.S. agent became friendly with a man he knew to be a top Soviet operative in Africa. The Russian ran into financial trouble. Eventually...
...work of Rod Foster, who complained that Restic's plays are too complicated. Instead, Foster, who called his own plays, chose to stick with a simple running game and a passing game that produced zero yards and three interceptions in the first quarter. Eric Crone, Foster's injured counterpart, hasn't mastered the playbook any better than Foster, and both he and Foster are unhappy with Restic's refusal to pick one quarterback and stay with...