Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale's halftime show was typically rivalrous. It included a mock duel between Nathan Hale and John Harvard that ended in Harvard's assasination by gunshot, as well as a real-life explosion made to represent the violent death of a mythical little boy from Cambridge named Kenny...
Immediately following the doubles final, the singles title was to be decided. And although the battle lines were drawn for that final matchup, the familial duel would have to wait. Due to a hematoba in his heel, Tom was forced to default and thus James was handed the singles trophy in a walkover...
...between Albert Einstein (Mark Nelson) and Pablo Picasso (Paul Provenza) in a Parisian bistro right at the turn of the century. Both men are in their early twenties, and each one is on the verge of his greatest accomplishments. During the course of the evening, the two men argue, duel, exchange ideas and learn a thing or two from the other. Martin keeps the surprises coming, and any who see the play may rest assured that they will be delighted at the special "guest" he introduces near...
...what happened? Is 1995 really so far away that the two most charismatic, star-studded teams in the American League couldn't last past the first round? And when we might have seen Randy Johnson duel David Cone in the opener last night, what have we done to deserve Chad Ogea versus Scott Erickson? Roberto Alomar and Jose Mesa? Peter Angelos...
...course, Altman only spends as much time on the actors in the drama as he does on what many might think the real star of the film: the musicians and their music. In one stunning, rollicking sequence, two jazz musicians duel away: the camera rushes from one to the other, then to both, and finally, plainly, gives up and lets us listen. And the eyes of the jazz musicians alone hold another entire movie with-in the movie. The music functions as a kind of running commentary on the movie: horns roar and seem to laugh cynically as one event...