Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, Crow grows on the audience throughout the second act. By the end, Blackstone completely eclipses Preven, who meets his demise, both literally and in his ability to maintain the audience's attention. It is especially difficult to take one's eyes off Blackstone's Crow during his duel scene with Hoss in the second act, an emotional moment that showcases superb acting and choreography as the two main characters engage in a battle of wits...
...marched about the room, soothing himself by recalling last winter's glorious match in Minnesota, and the autumn duel in New Haven two years before that...
Circling each other warily, always on the lookout for decisive openings, Time Inc. and Paramount Communications engaged in a fresh round of legal and financial swordplay last week. No clear winner emerged in the epic duel, but the thrusts and parries offered Wall Street speculators plenty of titillation -- and uncertainty. Time's board started off by rejecting Paramount's sweetened takeover bid, in which the company raised its offer for Time from $175 to $200 a share, or a total of more than $12 billion. The Time directors reiterated their plan to go ahead with an acquisition of Warner Communications...
...trial is a high-stakes duel between the two leaders in the $3.3 billion- a-year disposable-diaper business. P&G has about 47% and K-C 30% of the market. P&G wants its rival to stop manufacturing the superabsorbent Huggies. In its defense, K-C contends that it discovered the technology from its manufacture of tampons and adult diapers...
While the women's race was no contest, the men's race was a tough, searing duel...