Word: duel
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...smartly tricked out last week. No production can keep Cyrano from seeming far too long, or press out all its wrinkles. But last week's production was robust and properly flamboyant; its duel, for instance, looked like a real duel. And its Cyrano - who is after all the whole show - was a good Cyrano. Jose Ferrer (who has ranged on Broadway from a hilarious Charley's "aunt" to an impressive lago) caught the human being in Cyrano as well as the ham. As the monstrous-nosed, self-sacrificing lover who eloquently poured out his feeling for the beautiful...
...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
Four representatives of the University Housing Office in Strauss Hall will be featured tonight on the Yankee Network's "Quiz of Two Cities" in a radio duel of wits against a similar group from Brown University, Providence, R. I. The program will be carried over station WNAC from 8 to 8:30 o'clock...
...Duel Control. In Paris, Jean d'Asparbes and Rene Gaillard dueled ferociously for 15 minutes, finally appeared to cut each other's arms, later confessed that the blood oozing from their wounds was ketchup applied by face-saving seconds...
Readers-and Mark-discover the awful truth about Corinne in the last few pages of this new novel by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun; They Dream of Home).* Mark and Corinne have top billing in the book, but Author Busch attempts to show what was happening in the lives of a dozen different people (including an old diplomat, a top sergeant, a fighting liberal) during V-J day's wild rejoicing. Day of the Conquerors is not so deep as a well nor so wide as a psychiatrist's door, but it is fast-paced, triple-gaited...