Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taught me to think on my feet," he says. "You have six days to shoot 50 pages of script. TV is a well-oiled machine. Either you roll with it or it rolls over you." He rolled, all right: within three years he had directed his first TV movie, Duel, about an evil driverless truck bent on crushing a mild motorist on the endless blacktop of the Southwest. Shot in twelve days for $300,000, Duel went on to earn Universal $9 million when it was released to theaters in Europe...
Just a few years ago. McCurdy challenged team captain Thad McNulty to a pull-up duel, claiming that he could outdo McNulty by one The captain managed 14 pull ups, but true to his word, McCurdy did 15 Humiliated in defeat, McNulty trained for an entire week, and in a rematch he upped his total by five, but once again the team's mentor beat him by one Still determined to beat his cocky coach. McNulty tried again and did 29, more than doubling his first effort. Of course, McCurdy...
Perhaps the most disappointing duel of the day was third-ranked Warren Grossman's 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 loss to Blaine Willenborg. In the seventh game of the third set. Willenborg snagged two cheap points after the ball skimmed the net and fell onto Grossman's side. It Grossman had been able to capture one of those two points, he would have had the opportunity to serve with a 5-2 advantage in-the third set. Thus, he could have forced doubles competition. Harvard's most potent and refined weapon over the last half of the regular season...
...TIMES, KIESLING'S feeling about crew get even more intense than the Straus Cup finals. Like his nightmare before the 1979 Race: he dreamt that the competition had changed from a crew race into an eight-man duel, starting with the bowmen. One shot each: Each raised his pistol, fired, and disappeared with a clean round hole drilled through his forehead. This is not a normal athletic Tantasy...
Arabs and Israelis duel from Lebanon to the Sinai...