Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voluptuous daughter (Diane Cilento) of his uncle's gamekeeper. Five minutes after that the audience knows all about the beauteous Sophie Western (Susannah York), Tom's light-o'-love: about Squire Western, her apoplectic pa; and about that slimy fellow Blifil, who considers Tom a rival for Allworthy's estate and who hates him as only a boy with pimples can hate a boy all the girls adore...
...seemed to enjoy it thoroughly. Bronzed from a District of Columbia jail sun lamp and sucking a juice-filled plastic lemon to soothe his sore throat, he mumbled a litany of remembered violence on the sidewalks of New York in the '30s. He described the bloody revolution among rival Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra families in the New York-New Jersey area that took 60-odd lives with stiletto and chopper, involved intricate double and triple crosses and led to the ascendancy of Vito Genovese as the Mafia's "boss of bosses...
Bearded Eminence. Still, Fields's Old Corner Book Store at one time seemed like Parnassus. Authors and editors gathered there daily to exchange puns and peanuts, to speculate, perhaps, about the success of Dickens' proposed lecture tour, and to gibe wittily at the shoddy products of the rival literary capital in New York. On the same morning a junior clerk might receive an elaborate good morning from Longfellow and an impersonal purchase order from the shy Hawthorne. In either case, the great man would soon wander to the rear of the store to join the crowd in Fields...
...Novotny could not shrug off his own guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky as Premier was Josef Lenart, 40, a wartime underground leader with no embarrassing Stalinist history. Moreover, Lenart's diploma came from Moscow's own Central Committee training school, where he studied from 1953 until 1956. Last week when the new Premier took office...
...spoiling for excitement, the boys challenge a rival gang to a fight. Stein becomes frightened and runs away; Lewis, the gang leader, decrees that he must be court-martialed and shot. Stein is shown the rifles and the live ammunition, and is blindfolded. Blank cartridges are loaded into the guns-or are they all blanks? This climactic tragedy brings on the only good scenes in the film-scenes in which the raw horror of their deed gives macabre substance to the performances of the adolescent cast. The point, as in another current film about British schoolboys, Lord of the Flies...