Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in 1939 as an exclusive eight-team cotillion, the tournament guaranteed each entrant $750 and expenses in 1940, compared with the $1 million assured all four schools in New Orleans. Throughout the '40s, the rival National Invitation Tournament was more prestigious. In 1949 vaunted Kentucky lost in the first round of the N.I.T. but won the N.C.A.A. championship. Eventually, the field was expanded to 16, 22, 25, 32, 40, 48, and, two years...
...Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...
Providence, which went through a 90-minute workout yesterday at Tulane University, is well acquainted with Syracuse. The Friars, 25-8, lost both games to their Big East rival this season, and Pitino was once an assistant under Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim. The two are close friends...
...stature of Valjean, making believable both his general saintliness and his outbursts of animal ferocity. Only one other member of the original cast is in the U.S. company: Frances Ruffelle, who as a tomboyish adolescent joins the revolt out of unrequited love for Marius. Many of the other performances rival the West End originals; Randy Graff's splendid Fantine, utterly persuasive when, on her deathbed, she "sees" her absent daughter, is actually an improvement. In three major roles, however, the new ensemble falls far short: Terrence Mann sings Javert impeccably, but in an effort to humanize him, loses his obsessive...
HOWARD HAILS FROM THE NORTH east. He grew up in Manhasset, New York, located on the northern shore of Long Island. He acted and played basketball at Manhasset High School, where he was the only white player on his school team. He garnered the nickname, "White Shadow," from the rival Great Neck basketball squad. Regarding that nickname, Howard's former high school coach Fritz Mueller says, "sure he liked it, but he'd love any nickname. He was very funny and would spend hours singing in the showers with the other guys after practice, because Ken is a great singer...