Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lacks any writing of the kind that has elevated Playboy slightly above pure sex exploitation. Playboy has not shared the famous names or good writers or clever staffers that fill the spaces between torsos. Instead, Oui borrows more from Playboy's rival magazine, the British monthly Penthouse. There are more spread-legs poses, more explicit drawings, and more references to fetishes and sado-masochism than Playboy runs...
...shadowy, constantly shifting and unknown. Members are drawn from all guerrilla groups and become known only when they are killed or captured. This of course may well be a self-serving defensive explanation to avoid Israeli retribution. Since they began to brag about operations against Israel, leaders of the rival Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have fallen victim to mysterious attacks. One, Ghassan Kanafani, was blown to bits along with his niece, in Beirut in July, as he started his car. Israeli agents are suspected of planting the explosive...
...plot, which is barely discernible, concerns the physical and emotional bruising inflicted and endured by the denizens of the roller rink. Raquel, refusing to throw a match, wins the competition but loses the man she loves (Kevin McCarthy). Raquel's rival on the track is played by Helena Kallianitoes, the manic hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces, who turns in a performance so alive with currents of frustration and alcoholic lesbian hostility that it should never have been wasted on a penny-dreadful movie like this...
...third rebel group UNHA, or the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, was formed in 1962. It has concentrated its efforts in the East and the South. Friction with the MPLA has been constant, and UNHA claims that MPLA guerrillas have repeatedly attempted to eradicate their rival to the south...
...chief rival. Ripon society member and state Representative Martin Linsky (R-Brookline), was conceded the race by most observers last Spring due to an established base and close ties to Governor Fransis W. Sargent...