Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theater: Robards and Plummer duel in a Pinter revival...
...rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting duel in his repertoire...
...music shares an intensity and an intimacy with the listener: it is an acute, astute cauterization of the wounds of the spirit. I'm Alive is a duel between edgy resignation, of loving and hurtful recollection, and a cautionary wisdom that comes fresh from a skirmish on the front lines. You can almost feel the powder burn when in My Problem Is You Browne sings, "I wanted to live in the realm of the senses/ You've got to know how/ And for some kinds of pleasure there are no defenses/ I know that...
...judge. Tajomaru the bandit, played by the great Toshiro Mifune, gives a version in which fate led him to desire the samurai's wife (Machiko Kyo). After raping her, he set the husband free and fought with him for possession of the woman. It was a fair and glorious duel, choreographed in a balletic fashion, at the end of which the bandit killed the samurai...
...this points towards a duel this weekend between Harvard and RPI Saturday night, as the leagueleading Crimson try to knock off the consensus preseason pick of the ECAC litter on the road in Troy...