Word: duel
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...that the players show a comic enthusiasm which should have been sustained throughout the production. Director S. Heilpern Randall, with his good sense of the Shakespearean line, exploits the complete ludicrousness of the situation by treating it colloquially. In the rapid cross-fire of jokes in the garden and duel scenes, one is not at all conscious of the director's work, which seems at other times to be painfully overt...
...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...
Married. Niven Busch, 52, novelist (Duel in the Sun) and screenwriter (In Old Chicago, The Westerner); and Carmencita Baker, 28, West Coast socialite; he for the fourth time (his third: Cinemactress Teresa Wright), she for the first; in San Francisco...
Brinksmanship. "The Soviet Union," he said, "is forging ahead of us in weapons of many kinds. And, worst of all, she has now challenged us to an economic duel for the great uncommitted peoples of the earth. Yet, at a time when our rigid, inflexible policy is the most precarious it has been in many years, what do we hear from our faltering Government? . . . We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinksmanship-the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss...
...brief biographical introduction, British Essayist Violet Hammersley outlines the life that drove Madame de Sévigné to ink. Widowed at 25 when her chronically unfaithful husband was killed in a duel over his latest mistress,* Madame de Sévigné succumbed to the grand passion of possessive mother love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary...