Word: dueling
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...brothers' earlier crime dramas are mere frolics compared to No Country For Old Men-a grim, mostly enthralling version of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel about $2 million in missing drug loot. For most of its 122-minute running time, this is a gnarly action movie, a duel between a kind-of-good guy (Josh Brolin) who finds the stash, and an implacable monster (Javier Bardem) who's pursuing him and leaving a heap of corpses along the way. Toward the end, when an aged, seen-it-all sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) takes center screen, the film runs itself...
...like to make it exciting.” The trio of wind-aided longballs—No. 3 hitter Carolann Lubach gave Hofstra a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a line-drive homer—ultimately resolved a classic pitcher’s duel between Madick and Pride ace Kayleigh Lotti in the home team’s favor. “I knew they were a good hitting team,” Madick said. “If you miss a pitch here and there, they’re going...
...trio of wind-aided longballs out of the Hofstra Softball Stadium in Hempstead, N.Y., ultimately resolved a classic pitcher's duel between Madick and Pride ace Kayleigh Lotti in the home team's favor...
...exchange for their commute, which will arouse sympathy even from Matherites. The UC’s funding policies won’t change before Mather covers 650 innocent people in gallons of liquid soap, so scores will have to be settled some other way—a gentlemanly duel, perhaps, or a campus-wide game of Risk...
...None of that exists anymore,” another says of his past: “the words are more real than the actuality.” Bolaño literalizes his metaphors throughout: masturbatory writing means masturbating with one hand while writing with the other; a duel between Belano and a literary critic requires sabers; a dangerous pimp’s abnormally large penis is paralleled by his abnormally large knife. When García Madero has his first sexual experience with the beautiful María Font, his heartrending description—a distinctly youthful mix of exuberance...