Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit of prints by two local artists at the Behn-Moore Gallery reflects some of the developments taking place in the print medium. The influence of painters, more and more of whom are devoting themselves to this medium, is felt in the trend of contemporary prints to rival paintings in their size and use of color. In this connection, some of Bill Martin's expressionistic woodcuts are even larger than average canvases...
...rookie Al came to bat 28 times, hit a commendable .250. Even such rival sluggers as the Red Sox's Ted Williams spotted his promise and helped him polish up his stickwork. "Ted showed me how to bend my back a little and go down after a low pitch," Al remembers now. "Then he told me something else which I think helped me even more. He told me how to keep in condition during the off season, by swinging heavy bats and keeping a rubber ball in my pocket to exercise my grip...
...biggest order ever placed by an airline with a single manufacturer. Two days later, Northwest Airlines ordered another 14 Douglas planes costing $28 million. Together, the two boosted Douglas' backlog to 156 planes, worth more than $500 million, the highest figure in its history. At rival Lockheed, orders were on hand for $225 million worth of Constellations...
...Wagons Full of Cotton reveals that for Tennessee Williams, life had dirty fingernails from the outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons...
...garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival . . . Each day. as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday." Then, in a different mood, he confesses: "Now I am in the decline of my eighth decade and live so much more in the people, the books, the works of art, the landscape than in my own skin, that...