Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good as the next fellow" is not always a realistic or even noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...
...loud whistle. It was the only time I ever heard General de Gaulle whistle." Malraux hastened to add that he, for one, does not consider the scrub-up his supreme accomplishment. "My greatest coup," he said, "is that the Restaurant Lasserre in Paris created Pigeon André Malraux to outdo another restaurant, Le Grand Véfour, which had invented Pigeon Prince Rainier...
...annual lifetime achievement award. If last year's AFI salute to John Ford is any indication, the ceremony (which CBS is broadcasting in condensed form five days after it occurred) will be boring and corny. Last year, legions of Hollywood celebrities tripped over themselves and President Nixon trying to outdo each other in paying soapy homage to Ford. Nixon will not be there this year; that alone will make the ceremony more bearable. But the ceremony itself does not matter; what counts is that AFI is honoring Cagney. The tribute has triggered a like response from WKBG-TV: The Cambridge...
...style in art, as if the art connoisseurs had finally timed their pacesetting with the fashion designers in Paris. Art lurches from one peak of success to another (Pop, Happenings, Environmentalists, Conceptualists, Structuralists) so that you get seasick keeping up. Once, it took a century for an art to outdo itself, to reach that state of exaggeration from which a new style might explode. Now, you trade in art vocabularies like the diet faddist adjusting eating habits. It's enough to make anybody jumpy with anxiety. And anxiety is no good breeder of art lovers. But anxiety is what...
...Series now since 1949, and it has become a matter of civic price that the event be successful. During the games, as attendance is announced, the public address man keeps a line score on how the attendance figures compare with a year ago and he "cheerleads" the crowds to outdo the old mark...