Word: dueling
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...leading contendor for first place, Army's Jim Warner, predictably took the lead after the second mile and despite a brief duel with Columbia's Conway, stayed ahead until the last half-mile when, looking back, he recognized fellow Army runner Paul DeCoursey as his only serious competitor and slowed down to end the race in a dead heat. Unfortunately for Warner, DeCoursey came faster than expected and passed him at the last second to win the meet. Army took five out of the top ten places, ranking first with a total of 30 points...
...card duel between the two hot-handed pros generates all the expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...
...would I like Joseph? I should like you to tell me what Vice means," and goes on in that vein--well, any play like that asks to be taken seriously only at a distance. If there is any poetry (or truth, if that's what you look for) in Duel of Angels, it's not in the dialogue...
...huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove, so she says, that the world has purity and worth. Exit Paola. Barbette delivers a soliloquy to the corpse about what beasts men are, meanwhile purloining Lucille...
...other actors had less crucial parts, so they weren't as disappointing. I do wish Miss Krause, whose Paola was the mistress of so many scenes, had let us see some fire or some terror. The way she took command it was hardly a duel...