The revolving door of lone collaborators gives the effect of an improbable trip hop talent contest, with each new contestant delivering their piece before returning to the wings.
The pattern of play made for an entertaining contest, with each team demonstrating a willingness to adapt to quick situations.
There's an amusing ballet contest, with each doing air turns and landing in a pose designed to milk a ballet audience's applause.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park, another splendid proposal for the city's underused shoreline, also became a public relations contest, with each side vying for credit that both deserved.
But Downey, though his surface can be smooth, is turbid with frustration underneath, and there are times when "Due Date" assumes the air of a queasy contest, with each man trying, or straining, to be the less predictable.
A1 Neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Gore has yet been able to pull ahead in the presidential contest, with each man's weaknesses becoming magnified in the minds of voters, according to five polls out this week.
Episodes will culminate in an "Idol -like contest, wIdol -likeilm being shown in a movie-theater set, and then contested by a three-judge panel, along the lines of "American Idol". The verdict on the witheachand losers will be made by audience vote during a second show the next night.
Taking as my departure a medical case in which the ambiguity of a tattooed message translates into an ethical dilemma, I intend to approach bodily writings as sites where language, communication, and mortality conjoin and contest with each other.
India and China are seen as two economies that are in great contest with each other in their region, but at the same time they are being forced to co-operate in various forums.
Nixon won the Republican primary and Douglas the Democratic contest, with each also finishing third in the other party's contest (Boddy finished second in both races).
