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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile other Adams House residents have taken a very opposite approach. For instance Rudy Ruiz '90 and his roomate Peter Clateman '90, who are also running for the council, have engaged in a personal duel. Both posters are written in the same style-black handwritten xeroxed on white paper with a black strip with white writing on top and bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mud Flies in Adams Campaigns | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...Sicilian Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and outwrestle a rodent of unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook) and Not the Nine o'Clock News (Mel Smith). The air will billow with bombastic insults ("You hippopotamic land mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Errol Flynn Meets Gunga Din THE PRINCESS BRIDE | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...these creatures are not immune to their own venom. Howard Davies' direction, unobtrusive until the marquise declares war on her erstwhile sparring partner, fills the play's final minutes with haze and glare and an eerie, slow-motion duel. The end brings wholly unanticipated griefs to the apparent survivors. Yet there is no comforting afterglow of justice or even vengeance -- only the acrid residue of wanton agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Roundelay of Deadly Conquests LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...opening game was a pitching duel. Harvard's Lora Rowning surrendered three hits while Bruin hurler Tracy Goldstein gave up only...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bruins Shut Down Batswomen | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...buddies. They both like violence. They both like the same woman (Maria Conchita Alonso), who lives with Benteen at the opening of the film but used to live with Bailey. They both like mistreating the same woman. At the end of the film, the two spiritual compadres fight a duel. Benteen makes Alonso count off. Bailey rips open her skirt and says, "Come on, show us some tit and give us some motivation...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Macho Cheese Dip | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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