Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even John Wayne made a picture in modern dress every once in a while. Louis L'Amour, western man, has followed the Duke's example. In his 95th novel, Last of the Breed, he focuses on Joseph Makatozi, a major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait...
...toothy young lieutenant and the bonny red-headed publishing assistant awakened as Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sarah Margaret Ferguson. That night the two 26-year-olds went to sleep as husband and wife and, thanks to a wedding-gift title from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion was rich with fairy-tale solemnity. As the heir to the throne exchanged troths with a bashful girl just past her teens, it seemed that Prince Charming rode with Sleeping Beauty...
...lovesickness remains a bit earthbound, reaching real delirium only in Dan Kremer's laid- back version of melancholy Jaques. By contrast, James Edmondson's staging of Measure is an exquisite balance of tonally varied scenes in court, monastery, convent and red-light district. Woronicz makes psychological sense of the duke who retreats into disguise rather than crack down on his realm's licentiousness. John Castellanos shrewdly mutes the hypocrisy and heightens the righteousness of the sex-starved puritan who takes his place. Dante DiLoreto and Kamella Tate throb with youthful passions, profane and sacred, as a young man facing death...
...ultra-right-wing National Congressional Club, which had previously backed East. North Carolina Republicans hope that Broyhill's incumbency, however brief, will boost him in his uphill campaign against the Democratic nominee, popular former Governor Terry Sanford, who retired in 1985 after 15 years as president of Duke University...
...second-string catcher, named Boomer, is divorced by his wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson), a not-too-swift minded hurler...