Word: duel
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...race is not to row frenetically high," varsity stroke Jeff Brown explained after Sunday's loss. "We will row more our own race" at the Sprints. The duel promises to be a classic, coming down to a final 500-meter sprint...
CRABS: The varsity prepares for its biggest duel of the season, next week against Yale and Princeton, in New Haven . . . Both the Elis and the Crimson are undefeated, though Yale beat Dartmouth by 11.9 seconds while Harvard won by just 6.7 seconds...
...never picks it up again. His voice maintains the same pace and tone throughout the show, except at moments of special excitement when he raises it up high in his throat in a doomed attempt to communicate wonderment. When he is banished for killing Juliet's cousin in a duel and flees to his confessor's cell, he collapses on the floor and cries; the irritating sobs continue interminably. They seem an admission of the actor's inability to cope with Shakespeare's writing...
...Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show, not in the details of its direction...
...Words Over Dumping Re your article "Hot Duel Over Dumping" [March 26]: dumping by Japanese exporters has been going on for years. Part of the trouble is the attitude of our State and Justice Departments, which penalize violators with $1,000 or $2,000 fines, even while they rip off mil lions in profit and hurt our economy tremendously. Congress, manufacturers associations and various chambers of commerce with their country club atmosphere are to blame as well...