Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their skin is stiff. Their soles are thick, leaden slabs. Their tongues rival those of aardvarks, and their lightest step can be deafening. It is easy to see why they are called "monsters." And it is all but impossible to miss them. Great, galumphing, paralyzingly ugly, monsters are nonetheless the most visible shoes around today...
Maggie Smith plays Hedda as a literally compulsive personality, icily aware and occasionally appalled by what she says and does, but helpless to stop herself. When she reaches out to pull the hair of her rival or burn the manuscript of the man she loves, her body lurches and twists in a jumble of conflicting drives to do the thing, not do it, and dissemble by doing something else. Her pale, strained face is a screen on which the shadow of one inner demon masters another, only to be mastered by a third. In keeping with the cinematically fluid rhythms...
...that are not necessarily based on costs. The measures not only legalize the existing combined operations of 44 dailies in 22 cities (including St. Louis, San Francisco and Pittsburgh), but clear the way for most future arrangements of the same kind. There is no longer any legal dispute over rival papers sharing printing plants and advertising staffs. But publishers argue that without special antitrust exemption, some papers will succumb to rising production and labor costs, thus reducing the variety of editorial voices. The "newspaper preservation bill" is so protective, however, that Justice Department officials have called it "a license...
Formidable Rival. The hard negotiations to determine whether the Six will become the Ten are to be conducted at the European Economic Community's headquarters in Brussels. Nonetheless, it seemed fitting that the historic talks formally began in Luxembourg, where the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the Common Market, established its first headquarters in 1952 under the tutelage of Robert Schuman, France's pioneering Pan-European, and his compatriot Jean Monnet. Since then, the hopes of creating a United States of Europe have faded amidst charges that the Six add up to little more than...
...illustrate what I have in mind. During your freshman year this University experienced what I have been told was its first strike by employees. It was occasioned essentially by a contest for control between the leadership of two rival unions. But that is not the way it was reported in what I remember as one of the first of the scores of SDS propaganda leaflets to which we- all of us at Harvard- have since been continuously subjected...