Word: duel
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...problem was, UMass matched everything the Crimson dished out, making the first half a duel in which the Minutemen never led by more than two, until a lay-up at the buzzer put them up by four...
...which need to look the most authentic are chilling. When the envious Bruhl garrotes Anderson, the murder--which did in the chair--is agonizingly long. The strangling is exhausting for both involved and Rossman's face turns hideously red in his futile struggle. By prolonging their theatrical duel and a later bludgeoning, director Beth Schachter reminds the audience that death really isn't that funny and murder is downright terrifying to witness or commit...
...least the Soviets can claim Afghanistan is of essential strategic importance to them. Grenada-as Marxist two weeks ago as it is now-hardly constitutes a danger to U.S. security. By invading Grenada, we've lost a large chunk of the moral high ground we held in our ideological duel with the U.S.S.R...
That's just what happened to Harvard's wonder-player Elizabeth Evans yesterday at Palmer Dixon courts. Evans, ranked number one in the East, was upset 7-6, 6-4 by Brown freshman Stephanie Fusco in a tense duel...
Wajda constructs the contest of the duel between these two remarkable men with admirable skill. He sticks closely to historical detail, even mentioning Robespierre's illness in the month prior to Danton's return to Paris and using Robespierre's actual words in the deruncistory speech he delivers before the Convention. Only rarely does his scene setting tend toward excess or degenerate into same dropping as in Robespierre's visit to the studio of Jacques Louis David, where the great artist is finishing his famous "Death of Marat...