Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made the turnaround from nail to hammer. Sullivan wants to do that, badly. So what kind of advice does O'Brien have for his cross-town counterpart...
Gilbert Gottfried also turns in a fine performance as Jafar's parrot sidekick Iago. The bird is Gottfried's animated avian counterpart. Gottfried defines the bird's loud and obnoxious personality in the likeness...
...elect on the South Lawn and ushered him in like the new boy at school. The air in the Rose Garden was otherwise unmistakably thick: Bush aides who normally cram the colonnade . to see famous faces stayed defiantly in their cubicles; a Bush press officer curtly warned his Clinton counterpart that the boxwood and the decorative cabbage plants were a no-spin zone. Inside the Oval Office, the atmosphere was warmer: with no aides present, the two men met for 105 minutes. While no one was saying exactly what was discussed, Clinton later showed some movement toward Bush's conciliatory...
Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now. Almost a generation older than Picasso, his counterpart, he was born in 1869, the year the Suez Canal opened and Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale. Everything that looked modern in Matisse's environment is now ancient, from the gas buggies that were just coming onto the streets of Paris when he was a student in Gustave Moreau's atelier to the Vichy politicians who ran France during the Nazi occupation as he painted in Vence...
...counterpart at the New York Shakespeare Festival, JoAnne Akalaitis, extols the "magic" of Shakespeare in Central Park: "Shakespeare in the park is part of the essence of being a cultural person in New York City. It is relaxed, warm, open and democratic. The upsides are the wind and clouds, the informality, coupled with the power that comes with that much massed humanity." She adds dryly, "The downside is the body miking." The Central Park sound system is notoriously tinny, and actors cannot seem to master the technique of not hitting the mikes when they scuffle, so every few minutes...