Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest guide to some aspects of a vanished era: a department of public works report on the city sewer and water-supply systems, a rule book for the New York senate and assembly, speeches by Greeley, as well as photographs of him and his two daughters, copies of three rival newspapers of the day, even a Congressional Directory for the first session of the 43rd Congress...
...financial items are ticked off with smart, bulletin-like precision. These columns are bracketed by serious financial comment, offbeat personality profiles and flights of pop sociology. In a given week, the Journal's left-hand column will take up subjects as diverse as the trend toward naming rival products in advertising, and the not-quite-emerging nation of Afghanistan (Headline: DO THE RUSSIANS COVET AFGHANISTAN? IF SO, IT'S HARD TO FIGURE...
...bubbleless Crimson thinclads will challenge Boston rival Northeastern tonight at the Huskies' Cage for the mythical city championship...
...alchemy operated on the air waves. Sound effects entered the ear; a world rose in the mind, full of actors and sets to rival the most elaborate constructions of C.B. DeMille. It is doubtful if anything since the soothsayer at the campfire so gripped the collective human consciousness. It was no accident that ancient radios were often shaped like cathedrals. Listeners gathered round them with a concentration that bordered on worship. (In accordance with the nostalgia revival, those Gothic appliances are being remade, but now they are composed of plastic and run on transistors.) Oldtime daytime broadcasts were principally devoted...
...Henry's screenplay crudely compresses Robert Merle's good novel of the same title about a research scientist's growing moral responsibility and political commitment. In the book, the scientist was forced to take sides when he found that his "pure" research had been manipulated by rival government agencies until it was virtually perverted...