Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are compensations. The picture has been flashily produced in a slather of Eastman Color that often looks like violet shaving cream. It has been smartly directed by Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon. And it presents, in the part of Rock's jealous rival, one of the funniest young men in movies today: a sort of Ivy League Dracula named Tony Randall...
...from Leopoldville to Brussels last week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without bothering with elections until later. From a Belgian point of view, there is little to choose between the two major parties-or the 58 other varieties; the main objective...
Measured by the tastes and habits of the ordinary newspaper reader, the Wall Street Journal is agonizingly dull. For determinedly conservative makeup, the Journal's front page-six solid columns of type unrelieved by a picture-has no rival among U.S. metropolitan dailies. Its stories can hardly be called sensational: a looming shortage in milk bottles, potholes in the Inter-American Highway, a slump in the price of dried fruit, a rise in individual assets-to cite but a few of the subjects that rated Page One play last week...
...open annoyance of many jurists, first prize in painting went to Spain's Modesto Cuixart, 33, cousin but proclaimed rival of Spain's Antonio Tapies (TIME, March 16). Cuixart makes elegant mudpies, the blackest and heaviest in the notably gloomy Spanish exposition. Black may always be in fashion, especially in Spain. Yet the spirit of Goya is clearly not with Cuixart. He makes despair chic...
...work on the small car in secret. It was fairly simple to roll down a tight security curtain because each of G.M.'s semi-sovereign divisions is constantly tinkering on its own far-out projects that it keeps under wraps to protect them from competitors or even from rival divisions...