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Playtime for the kids, on this Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, means sexual one-upmanship. Precocious Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) insists on wearing a Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver and goads his shy younger brother Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) into a game of mutual exhibitionism. Wendy's brother Paul (Tobey Maguire) goes to a Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships...
...edge. If Netscape let Web browsers look at pages from around the world, Microsoft would let users look at the same Web pages but from within familiar applications, such as Microsoft Word. If Navigator could play sound, Explorer would play CD-quality sound. It was the sort of one-upmanship that Gates had perfected in dozens of similar software fights. Although frequently second to market with a product, Microsoft always won by outfeaturing and outlasting its competitors...
...size. And how! Four big productions will have opened by Memorial Day: EFX, the magic show Spellbound, a permanent edition of The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular and Splash II: The Voyage of a Lifetime! "In Las Vegas," says producer Jeff (Splash) Kutash, "it's always one-upmanship." For now Broadway is ancient history; Vegas is the musical theater of the coming millennium...
...medley -- composed of show tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
...like it to be less divisive and less about one upmanship," Sullivan says, adding that the current problems of crime in the city and lack of development are more important than political maneuverings...