Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last of Hoffmann's triad of heartbreaking heroines is the conniving courtesan Giulietta (Heidi Brown). A slave to the evil Dappertutto (again played by Benaim), she tries to steal the soul of Hoffman by capturing his reflection in a mirror. She abandons Hoffmann after he engages in a bloody duel with her wealthy suitor Schlemil (James Capobianco...
...sustained balances and pirouettes are always a pleasure to watch. During a pause in the festivities, Onegin spurns Tatiana and rips her letter up, letting the pieces fall into her trembling hands. He then goes on to flirt with Olga until an enraged Lensky challenges his friend to a duel. As the scene shifts to the gray and gloomy glade where the duel is to take place, Lensky dances alone in his agony over what is to come. Armand has an incredibly expressive face, and Lensky's solo ends with him lying on the ground in his misery. Tatiana...
...George Lucas Sr. told TIME in 1983, eight years before his death. "George was hard to understand. He was always dreaming things up.") Obviously, fighting with your father over career paths isn't quite the same thing as having him cut off your hand during a light saber duel, as happens to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back, but armchair analysis sees a connection--one that Lucas shrugs off. "There's a lot of pop psychology on Star Wars, believe me. Some of it is extremely amusing. But I haven't found too much of it that's relevant...
...rules are different here is a slogan Miami has used to lure tourists. Unfortunately, city officials seem to think it applies to them as well. One of the mayor's chief foes, a Cuban-American multimillionaire, once offered to settle their feud with a duel in Central America. A few years ago, when city bureaucrats squabbled over jobs, voodoo dolls with tiny nooses began appearing at City Hall. And Miami officials were caught buying stolen designer clothing for pennies on the dollar in a scandal known as "Hot Suits...
...Ridicule" is indeed the recurrent theme of this world. Being ridiculed and being made ridiculous are the constant threats spurring the dangerous social interactions, and yet ridicule itself leads to dishonor and even death, by duel or suicide--endings with nothing witty about them, leading eventually to the questioning of all that this world and its ways exemplify...