Word: brawls
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...altered his style somewhat. The scenes are clipped, terse, and derive much of their impact from indirection. When two women have a fight in the Crazy Horse, the scene is not carefully choreographed. Cassavetes shows close flashes of tangling limbs, the violent confusion of a true brawl in which it is hard to tell what is going on until one combatant finally tears away from the other. On film, the brawl is like a kinetic abstract...
...that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom...
...have not gone out looking for fights. But we haven't run away from any." So last week said Daniel P. Moynihan, who found himself embroiled in his first major diplomatic brawl since becoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations three months ago. Publicly squared off against him initially were U.N. representatives of numerous African states, who were furious at what they regarded as his rude attack on Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada and, by implication, on other black African leaders as well...
Then there are the weird things that can happen only in the bushes, like games being stopped because of tornadoes or a brawl in the stands. One particular riot spilled over onto the field, and Wolff's team ended up losing half its gloves and bats...
...more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...