Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Debbie Sze's narrow escape from the agony of defeat came against Michelle Prettyman. Down 4-3, Sze tied the duel at 4-4 then earned the thrill of victory by parrying a Prettyman lunge, then counterattacking into the engineer's chest...
Perhaps the compulsory one-meter diving was the closest event. With the score 41-11, the outcome of the meet was not in doubt, but Harvard's Peri Ozkum and Tuft's Lisa Kaufman engaged in the only real duel...
...looked stronger and stronger as the grueling 40-lap race progressed, was followed by gutsy Crimson co-captain Paco Canales. Canales, who competed in the Montreal Olympics for Puerto Rico, spent the second half of the race engaging Navy's Chris Pearson in a thrilling neck-and-neck duel for second place...
Mandelbaum fenced intelligently, winning his second bout 5-2 with a tactically brilliant last tough. Ahead 4-2 with only 10 seconds left in the bout (there is a four minute time limit in each duel), Mandelbaum guessed correctly that his opponent Geoff Pingree would make a reckless attack to try and get back in the match...
...agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately, "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilized man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...