Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During McClees' victory epee fencer Russ Kaphan battled in a marathon match with Princeton's Glenn Gwozdz. Gwozdz eventually won the duel, after being tied with Kaphan at 4-4 for almost five minutes, withdrawing his blade from a tie-up with Kaphan's and touching him in the stomach...
...duel may not have been as close as expected but Desaulniers' awesome mastery of all aspects of the game more than made up for what the match lacked in excitement...
...understand immediately. Several hundred films have used ground fog rising off fields and the dark figures of waiting men to give the same contrast between soft landscape and hard purpose. A duel is to be fought. The swordplayers level rapiers, hold, touch blades in saute, fight. One falls, too badly wounded to continue...
Scott and the screenwriter, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, hold closely to a short story by Joseph Conrad called The Duel. Conrad was fascinated by obsession, by the kind of craziness carried so far beyond the reasonable delusions of ordinary men that it acquires a kind of grandeur. In The Duellists a young hussar lieutenant named D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), an unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces...
...something edgy and vindictive in the spirit of contemporary society that causes young American playwrights to relish scenes of abrasive confrontation. The duel may be one of words, the sly techniques of a psych-out or blunt violence. All three tactics are present in Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter, now at Manhattan's Public Theater. The setting is a police station during the midnight-to-dawn shift. Two dope addicts, Simon (Laurence Luckinbill) and Jimmy (Alan Rosenberg), who are also homosexuals with bisexual experiences, are pushed into the bleak room in handcuffs. They have robbed...