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...Food Network star and San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino, for getting people used to the idea of pig as an almost entirely edible beast. This passion for offal is a sign of Americans awakening to eating whole hog, Griffiths says, and bacon is the door opener. "People try to outdo each other," he says. "'I'm serving lamb testicles,' one person will say. 'O.K., I'm serving the spleen,' another says...
...Germany's deep pockets give the nation plenty of clout. But around Europe, anger is rising that German politicians are playing a deadly game of poker with GM for which others might end up paying the price. "We cannot get into a situation where everyone is trying to outdo each other, in which we see how much money Germany can put on the table and how much we can," said Flemish Premier Kris Peeters. After all, he, too, faces elections this year...
FlyBy loved the club atmosphere: you know, velvet booths, club lighting, smoke machines, gyrating bodies on the dance floor, and hot bartenders in sheer tops. Q-ball was able to outdo the other recent events in The Estate by opening up the top floor so attendees could overlook the dance floor while grinding with a little less sweat and a little more privacy than on the lower floor. Even the VIP lounge was open, where FlyBy went to rest our feet from all the dancing...
...workshop, according to some sources, because Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's evident gifts. For whatever reason there was bad blood between them ever after, and there ensued many instances when one sought to block the other from getting work or to use a highly visible public commission to outdo the other's effort...
Tintoretto is a parody of Titian’s scene. All of the figures surrounding Christ are looking away from him, and the colors are muddy and the brushstrokes rough, as if flipping the finger to his older rival. Moving through the exhibition, each artist seems in turn to outdo his rivals, producing works of ever-greater beauty and power—and yet, at the end, it is Tintoretto who seems, if not the most supremely skilled, the most challenging, inventive, and creative of the triumvirate.Tintoretto’s canvases occasionally verge on the ugly with deeply shadowed...