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Griffin locked horns with fellow left-hander Paul McOsker in a pitcher's duel that eventually turned out to be a test of endurance. McOsker finally succumbed in the tenth with the game still tied after giving up only eight hits, and gave way to Ron Stewart, who was tagged with his second loss of the year, while Griffin went...
...agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilize man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...
...game was a classic pitcher's duel, as Tiger Andy Kannenburg proved equal to the task, holding the Crimson hitless until a single by Halas in the fifth broke up the no-no. Yet it wasn't until the sixth that the scoring drought was broken...
...some time by Washington; he became Washington's de facto chief of staff at the astonishing age of 20. Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should die in a duel. Fortunately, Flexner never permits his psychological theories, which seem sound enough if not pursued to preposterous lengths, to overwhelm this rich and very solid biography, ending with Hamilton's 26th year, two decades before his death...
Meanwhile, the jittery Crimson boat settled lower at 33 strokes, but nevertheless came up short on their entries and appeared rushed and harried in their haste to duel with the authoritative Knights' entry...