Word: dueling
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...years ago, 12 hours before a anxiety-filled final in a Science core, an acquaintance frantically called me over to a Loker Commons television to watch Charlie Ward duel P.J. Brown in the Knicks' most Pyrrhic of victories...
...pilot script, at least, MacFarlane's pell-mell wit recalls The Simpsons' fevered early-'90s creative peak. Punch lines spill out furiously as the show spirals into multilayered flashbacks and inventive fantasies (when Peter wonders whether to lie to his wife, for instance, the angel and the devil that duel cunningly over his shoulders turn out to have angels and devils dueling over theirs...
...center stage for the remainder, he kept the intensity flowing and the tone of the show light as he alternatingly teased and supported the other band members. At one point, he challenged Natasha Joseph, double second player and the lone woman in the group, to a little duel. While she lacked Gulston's dynamic stage presence, she showed him what was up as he, dripping sweat and looking as if he was in pain, tried to stump her with his instrument. Joseph was flawless as she effortlessly repeated his tunes, smiling. As mentioned earlier, most of the band members...
Seized upon as a David-vs.-Goliath tale by Britain's press, Potter's duel with Gates may well have a surprise ending. A South African-born physicist with a flair for brilliant chess moves, Potter last month finished stitching together an ingenious alliance with three of the world's telecommunications heavyweights: Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia and Motorola of the U.S. The three firms account for 70% of global sales of mobile telephones and have the kind of financial muscle to make even Bill Gates sit up and take notice...
That's you next time the subject of Lewinsky or Starr comes up--Gable refusing the duel...