Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Small wonder. Michel is widely blamed in his home town for failing to change Reagan's mind about U.S. sanctions against the Soviet gas pipeline. This Reagan decision cost Caterpillar an $85 million contract for pipelaying equipment and shifted future contracts to its leading rival, Japan's Komatsu. Michel later broke publicly with the President on this issue, but he has not otherwise sought to distance himself from the Administration. Says Michel: "Ronald Reagan is not a problem for me or for the country...
...though, Boston theatergoers will have to resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...
Said Stoler: "I am envious of someone who does exactly what he dreams of doing, and does it so well." Suggests TIME Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, who edited the cover story: "You can find some American novelists and literary critics who can rival the quality and importance of his individual works. But no one can match him today for the variety of his endeavors and the discipline he brings to them." TIME, which is not in the habit of repeating itself, is happy to have John Updike on its cover once again...
...speech after speech, at fair after fair and parade after parade, Republican Senator Lowell Weicker stresses his maverick ways. NOBODY'S MAN BUT YOURS his billboards proclaim. But that is just the problem, retorts his rival, four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett: "Nobody's man is part of nobody's plan." Weicker is so independent, suggests Moffett, that he is a political hermit devoid of effectiveness...
...Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as despotically as his arch-rival. The two men look strikingly similar and have so many of the same insane idiosyncrasies that by the end of the movie we're not sure that Danny's isn't just being converted to another obsession...