Word: vies
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Eight Democratic candidates and three Republican candidates are aiming for the April 30 primary which will determine who will have the right to vie for the coveted Congressional seat formerly held by the late Republican Silvio O. Conte...
...couple" friendship with his diametric opposite, the mercurial, spiritually obsessed Jewish homosexual Jacob: it was the vein of mystical imagery, the fascination with arcana, the tarot and the figure of the artist as Hermes Trismegistus, that pervades the Blue Period and culminates in his first masterpiece, La Vie, 1903. Likewise, Richardson is very shrewd about Picasso's relations with Stein, pointing out how her egotism was so resistant to his that she became one of his early real-life icons: her bulky presence, Richardson speculates, fused with childhood memories of his mother, led to the unnaturally massive torsos...
...heir of Jean Gabin -- the soul of France," says Bertrand Blier, writer-director of six Depardieu films, including the Oscar-winning Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and the new Merci la Vie. "Like all the great talents, Gerard is a raw talent -- art brut. They learn a little technique doing theater, but the rest is inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining...
...opposite end of the spectrum in our applicant pool are 10 to 20 percent of the applicants who would probably experience severe academic difficulty here. This means that there are approximately 10,000 qualified applicants to vie for the 2200 admit letters mailed in April (2200 are admitted to fill a class...
...hottest banking action in Europe is within Germany itself, as West German banks vie to take over the deposits of their East German neighbors. Deutsche Bank, the leader of the drive, is opening 100 new branches in the East to cash in on this month's currency union between East and West. Dresdner Bank, which once had 162 branches in the East, is hard at work re-establishing them. And Commerzbank has set up prefabricated bank branches on East Berlin street corners. Elsewhere in Eastern Europe, where countries like Hungary and Poland are burdened with billions in foreign debt, bankers...