Word: duels
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...premise of the duel was established Friday night in a staged dispute over casting for Guest’s upcoming play, The Dybbuk...
Following a performance of the group “13” at the Rieman Center, Guest started a shouting match with Sack that led to a mock brawl. The two resolved to settle the dispute Monday with a duel...
Each next threw down a ski glove to signal the start of the duel. They then, without explanation, discarded their hats, shirts, and pants...
...Europeans that the E.U. is all brains and no heart, an entity only a bureaucrat could love. The Chirac-Schröder agreement is a classic E.U. fudge. Instead of sharpening competencies, they are creating new potential overlaps. The dual presidency could all too easily end up being a duel, with the two executives at permanent war. And the deal reflects the kind of "something for everyone" compromise that gives the Union a bad name. The Germans, with their federal structure and ambivalence toward national feeling, have always been committed - in principle, if not always in practice - to a strong...
...staple of our popular culture, comedy division, is the Road Runner--Wile E. Coyote duel, in which the cheerful little beeper continually eludes the inept but monomaniacal chasings of the pursuing varmint. Another less often noted but more sober pop-cultural theme is Steven Spielberg's obsession with children (E.T., Empire of the Sun, et al.) who as a result of either death or divorce are bereft of conventional parenting and wonder if they can successfully make it to maturity. It is the business of Catch Me If You Can to meld these two subgenres in a single film...