Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the men blew away the Lions, Radcliffe did not fare as well, losing to arch-rival Dartmouth...
Charlotte's eldest son Cane (Charles Grodin) tries to save the family $ business from the clutches of a rival tycoon (Dabney Coleman) by striking a shady deal with the local toxic-waste company. Meanwhile, his randy wife Talon (Teri Garr) roams the farm looking for bedmates; his younger brother Kevin (Anthony Heald) takes a vow of celibacy to protest the killing of sperm whales; an adopted sibling named Tiffany (Valerie Mahaffey) embarks on a search for her real parents; and a mysterious stranger (Gregory Harrison) shows up with his own dark secrets -- not the least of which...
Probably so. But skipping The Pianoplayers is not a good idea. Burgess, 69, has recaptured the same linguistic verve and inventiveness that marked his earlier fiction, especially The Doctor Is Sick (1960) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). He has also created a heroine to rival, in nearly every respect, the comically seedy poet Enderby, hero of four Burgess novels. Ellen Henshaw is an old woman living in the south of France when she decides to set down her memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that...
Kennedy's combativeness often works to his advantage. Before a debate during the primary race, Kennedy's staff heard that his principal rival, George Bachrach, intended to confront him with a question about Citizens Energy's possible links with Libya. A check showed there was no connection. When Bachrach leveled the charge, Kennedy sprang a counterattack. "Libya offered Sirhan Sirhan asylum after he killed my father," he said, eyes blazing. "For you to think for one second that Citizens Energy would have anything to do with Libya is just totally off base." The race was never close after that...
Last week Yamani's legendary power came to an end. In a royal decree, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz dismissed Yamani, 56, as his Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister, a post he had held since 1962. Planning Minister Hisham Nazer, a longtime Yamani rival, was named to take his place until a permanent new oil minister is named. Nazer's first official act was to call for an emergency meeting of the pricing committee of OPEC, whose 13 members include Nigeria, Venezuela and Indonesia, as well as seven Arab countries. The avowed purpose of the meeting, which...