Word: dueling
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dyin' time's here." With that genial salutation, the hunchbacked emcee greets a braying mob assembled for the evening's entertainment at Thunderdome. Welcome to a death duel between that stoic wanderer of the postapocalypse Australian wasteland, Mel Gibson's Mad Max, and his monstrous iron-masked opponent, known as Blaster. You are privileged to witness, as well, an astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history...
...second race, which turned into a two-boat duel between Harvard and Georgetown, the Crimson, in 6:05:02, edged the Hoyas by nearly three seconds. Columbia and Delaware finished over six boat-lengths behind the Crimson, in 6:21.5 and 6:29.7, respectively...
...latest obsessions of Lerer, Braunstein, and two other HRFSen—a board game based on dice, role-playing cards, and characters from Star Wars. The game can be played with as few as four players and as many as 12, and tonight they wanted an Epic Duel of epic proportions. Hustling together 11 players, Braunstein, Lerer, and the others tried to find their missing 12th. They zeroed in on Cohen...
Bach was a father of the Baroque, the waning age of myth and mysticism; Frederick was a son of the Enlightenment, the dawning epoch of empiricism and reason. Their musical duel took place at "the tipping point between ancient and modern culture," writes Gaines, the moment at which "the intuitions, attitudes, and ideas of a thousand years were being exchanged for principles and habits of thought that are still evolving and in question three centuries later...
...decision came down to freshman Jennifer Blumberg’s bout at No. 3 and Grigg’s duel at No. 1 with defending individuals champion and intercollegiate No. 2 Michelle Quibell. There was the potential for the final result to hang on the outcome of the highly-anticipated Quibell-Grigg matchup...