Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper perspective on himself. Because he is an extravert, Keach is weakest in the soliloquies, good in all the social scenes, the guying of Polonius, and brilliant in the duel with Laertes, which for feral second-to-second menace has never been better staged...
...psychological plateau necessary to crack 18 ft. "In practice, even when I'm trying, I can never get over 16½ ft." Lack of competition will not be a problem this summer in Munich, however. Then the 6-ft., 175-lb. Seagren meets Isaksson in an aerial duel that very likely will decide who goes home with the Olympic gold medal in the event...
...their punishing primary ordeal, the stakes in next week's voting for California's 271 delegates are huge. The winner in the head-to-head showdown between Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern will be a heavy favorite to grab the nomination in Miami Beach. As the duel between the two longtime friends from neighboring Midwestern states turns personal, the man with all the momentum is McGovern...
...Meeting, a fatal and apparently meaningless duel between two gentlemen at a party takes on the significance of another sort of "meeting" across time. The two knives which are wielded in the fight seem to quiver, as if by their own energy, in the hands of the unskilled fighters. Taken from a glass cabinet, they are relics from earlier days of Argentine banditry. The narrator discovers, years after this fight that he witnessed as a child, that these two knives (or ones very much like them) belonged to two outlaws, who jealousy despised one another, but who never were able...
OTHER stories deal with less mysterious, but still uncannily disturbing events. In The Intruders, two brothers embrace in remorse after the murder of a woman whom they both loved and sacrificed, because she was destroying their own fraternal love. The End of the Duel stands out as one of the most absurd and horrible tales, told with cool, impeccable gravity. Two soldiers, captured and condemned to death, play out a long-standing feud by running a race with their throats slit, while fellow prisoners, awaiting their own executions, place their bets...