Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile was billed as the biggest track event of the season, a duel at Modesto, Calif, between Australia's Herb Elliott, the best in the world, and lanky Dyrol Burleson, the best in the U.S. But five minutes before starting time Elliott withdrew because of a strained knee tendon, and suddenly Burleson was left with no one to whip but a bunch of also-rans, including a distance runner named Jim Beatty, 25, who felt so out of place in the event that he frankly said: "I'm no miler...
...Duel of Angels. The icy virtue of Mary Ure, as a self-righteous Lucrece, is soon broken by the vice of Vivien Leigh, in a glowing performance of Jean Giraudoux's last play...
...Duel of Angels. The last of Jean Giraudoux's plays (adapted by Christopher Fry) is an ironic toast of farewell: cold champagne served by a cold, elegant hand. As an errant lady who convinces a too-pure Lucrece that she has been raped, Vivien Leigh is at her best...
...Duel of Angels. The last of Jean Giraudoux's plays (adapted by Christopher Fry) is an ironic toast of farewell; cold champagne served by a cold, elegant hand...
...Duel of Angels. Vivien Leigh is brilliant in Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, cynically scented prose...