Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waldman went on to battle Navy's number one Mark Jee in a two-and-a-half hour long duel, emerging with a 6-7, 7-5, 6-4 victory. In the quarterfinals Waldman met his match, John Botica of Ohio State, losing...
Carter kept genial control over Prosecutor Browning and Defender Bailey as they began their long-awaited duel. Browning, 43, had not tried a case in more than five years, preferring, as an administrator, to leave the courtroom work to his assistants. He professed to be unimpressed by the fact that he was facing one of the most famous and flamboyant criminal lawyers. "I've been up against good lawyers before," he said, "but unless you have the facts on your side, it doesn't mean much...
...fencing team, which sports a 4-2 overall record, will duel Princeton Saturday in the IAB. Harvard is 1-0 in the Ivies and 4-2 overall...
...Barry's adherence to rules of duelling make him a gentleman, or does he take advantage of the rules? After his card-sharping experiences on the continent the latter verdict seems more likely. You could, if you wanted to stretch things, see Barry's final act in the final duel as confirming his inner status as a gentleman while insuring that he loses the outer status. But how seriously are we supposed to take these duels? We can hardly be expected to take them in the spirit of picaresque amorality when they are the ordering principle of the whole plot...
...remembered that Thackeray's Barry Lyndon is, unlike Kubrick's adaptation, an eminently comprehensible book. Kubrick's problems can be seen in that he had to go outside Thackeray and invent the only scene with real suspense, the final duel. Kubrick has always altered the material he films--but in the past he has enriched it; in this case he has imposed an artificial anemia...