Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Pistol, since it was written as a satire on the bombastic acting style of a rival theatre troupe from which Shakespeare had seceded. Watson's gestures often clarify the bawdy puns; and, after striding a barrel as though it were a horse, he engages in a duel so vigorously that he discovers at the end that his groin flap has fallen down...
Nothing intrigues a Frenchman like an affair of honor. Last week in the farming town of Le Mans, France, 250,000 spectators turned out to watch a duel to the death...
...Duel at Diablo is ostensibly a battle between murderous Apaches and a company of American folk types who are fighting their way with troops, ammunition and supplies from a place called Fort Creel to a place called Fort Concho. Many a sturdy western has sprung to life from such straightforward plans as these, but Director Ralph Nelson and his scenarists clutter up the spectacular Utah scenery with something other than frontier history. Clearly indebted to more current events, Diablo's wagon train carries two kinds of people: bad guys and freedom riders...
Crimson sophomore Doug Hardin, who won handily and surprisingly Friday will face a tough duel with Northeastern's sophomore flash Bob Bruen. Bruen whipped Hardin as a freshman...
...Massachusetts Democratic Convention endorsed former Governor Endicott ("Chub") Peabody for Senator and former State Attorney General Edward McCormack for Governor in the September primary. Peabody, who won the convention but lost the primary two years ago, while he was still Governor, now faces a bitter duel with Boston's Mayor John Collins, who angrily claimed that he had been "jobbed" by party leaders. McCormack, nephew of U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, faces an easier race against former J.F.K. Aide Kenneth O'Donnell. Chief gainers from the Democratic infighting: Attorney General Edward Brooke, all-but-certain G.O.P. nominee...