Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience. In the mid '80s, poet Marc Smith spearheaded the evolution of slam poetry by encouraging friends to battle it out Sunday nights at Chicago's Green Mill. After the evening's feature and open mike cleared the stage, judges were selected from the audience and given scorecards, and "rival" poets went head to head, poem by poem, for the approval of the bar. What was great on paper wasn't always a crowd-pleaser. To win, a poem had to have more than literary merit--it had to wrench the words from their passivity on the page...
Despite the late goal by Yale, Harvard went into the break looking good, having outplayed its Ancient Eight rival...
...Crimson will hope to salvage some pride from its season as it travels to South Bend, Ind. to take on Notre Dame next Saturday. After the Fighting Irish, Harvard heads to New Hampshire to close out its season against Ivy rival Dartmouth...
Harvard (18-18, 8-2 Ivy) swept a doubleheader from Vermont (15-20) yesterday, 3-1 and 8-5, but split a twin bill with Ivy rival Cornell (33-7, 11-1), 2-0 and 3-1, on Saturday. The Big Red swept two games from Dartmouth (10-23, 2-8) yesterday by counts of 11-0 and 8-0 clinch its first-ever Ivy League title. CORNELL 0 HARVARD 2 CORNELL 3 HARVARD...
Computer-generated creatures are actors too, and Episode 1 has some of potential Oscar caliber. Watto growls and connives with the swagger of a con man who's not as smart as he thinks. Sebulba, Anakin's rival in the Podrace, walks on his hands and throttles rivals with his feet. "George said, 'Think of a spider crossed with an orangutan crossed with a sloth,'" recalls Rob Coleman, the film's animation director. Coleman would pester Lucas for backstory on obscure creatures like Sebulba, "but I've never been able to stump him. He marinates in this world...