Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets are leading the way, with a drive on personal freedoms and intellectual life that is fast approaching Stalin-era dimensions. While continuing its running duel with individual dissidents (see following story), Moscow has cut back on all sorts of civil and cultural liberties, and there are fewer showings of Western plays like My Fair Lady. Producers must stage works that celebrate such things as Soviet espionage and the victories of World War II. Mail censorship has been tightened; library privileges are harder to obtain. One new decree prohibits use of a telephone "against state interests." Another, issued...
...being revived by Manhattan's New Phoenix Company, is a compendium of these aspects of the lesser O'Neill. It is a drama of split personality. The protagonists, Dion Anthony (John McMartin) and William Brown (John Glover), are physically two but psychically one. The play is a duel of opposing forces within the same being. Anthony stands for Art untrammeled by mundane affairs; Brown for the etiolated Babbittry of Commerce. But Dion is himself divided, his first name standing for Dionysius, the creative-erotic life force, and his last name Anthony for "a saint in the desert, exorcising...
...that, Vidal has been able to write a dozen novels, as well as find the time and energy to rewrite and republish a few of them. He is now into No. 13, a heavily researched historical novel about Aaron Burr, best known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel but also the man who dreamed of establishing his own empire in Mexico. Vidal has completed the first draft, doing much of the work at his farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland. (It is an integrated neighborhood: just over the hill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is preparing a retirement home...
...opening duel, the Big Red routed Harvard, 22-6, losing only three decisions to the Crimson. UMass won the meet by edging Cornell in a down-to-the-wire battle, 18-15, and drubbing Harvard...
...triumph for her as it was for Bergman. She played a great stage actress who suffers an obscure spiritual crisis and decides never to speak again. Nor does she for the rest of the film, except for two words: "No, don't." The plot traced a duel of personality between the actress and her talkative nurse (Bibi Andersson), between the actress's corruption of soul and the nurse's innocence. Deprived of words, Liv spoke with a glance, a turn of the head, an enigmatic Gioconda smile. For much of the movie, Bergman simply trained his camera...