Cartoons of the Year Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, previews a new collection of the magazine's top cartoons of 2014 and reveals the ten best caption contests of all time.
Arnold Wesker's family play Roots (1958) and the epic Chips with Everything (1962) have survived because they are about the great contest of their time, between the resilience of the British class system and working-class emancipation.
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In its recent editorial on the Brussels attacks, "How Did We Get Here?", the magazine presents the great cultural contest of our time as being fundamentally a question of what to do with baked goods, an exterminationist war fought for the sanctity of bits of meat packed between bits of bread.
The pair had recently competed at the London Olympics in one of the most dramatic marathons of all time — a contest that had captivated newspaper readers around the world.
It has been billed as one of the biggest architectural competitions of all time, an international contest open to practices both tiny and titanic, for a vast cultural complex for a world-famous institution, with a multi-million pound budget on a spectacular waterside site.
According to Max Preps, the dismal final score ties a national record for the lowest of all time, a 2-0 contest decided in North Carolina in 1977.
From Iraq to Afghanistan and from Azerbaijan to the Gulf, the battle between the US and Iran for the upper hand in the Middle East is, as one regional diplomat put it, "the great hegemonic contest of modern times".
In 2005, a "Best Games of All-Time" contest at GameFAQs placed GoldenEye 007 at seventh, and in a list made by IGN in 2005, the game was ranked 29th, while the Reader's Choice placed it at seventh.
