Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams won the tournament with a total of 2545 points for six games, besting all six opponents that he faced. His total was over 400 points ahead of his nearest rival...
...loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif. "I use everything from the brushes that sweep the floor to rags. I use everything...
...attempts to thwart the Common Market's policing authority. As one EEC official put it: "A lot of companies have their European headquarters in Switzerland. Something like this could happen every time we investigate one of them. Adams didn't turn the information over to a rival pharmaceutical firm. He gave it to the EEC, which was investigating a possible violation of Common Market law. If the Swiss want to protect that kind of information, what will happen when we start looking into things like tax havens...
...years she has been a member of the Met's energetic rival, the New York City Opera. At the start, her career was decent but unspectacular, notable mostly for her sweet laments in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills...
...Rival Rallies. Even before that, the council moved swiftly against what Costa Gomes described as "those few persons who cannot distinguish between being free and being liberated, confusing democracy with the absence of authority and legality." Two radical leftist parties, the tiny Alliance of Workers and Farmers and the student-dominated Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play...