Word: duress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ride has earned her colleagues' trust and high regard. Says Crippen, who as skipper had veto power over all the crew choices: "You like people who stay calm under duress. And Sally can do that. She hit all the squares." Her sister, who has become a Presbyterian minister, calls her a tough, no-nonsense competitor: "Sally will wipe you out every time." Adds Molly Tyson, an old Stanford roommate: "I've never seen Sally trip, on or off the court, physically or intellectually...
Sequestering incompatible people on islands, in hotels or at roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas...
...midweek, journalists in West Beirut were summoned to a press conference by a group called the High Security Committee. There they were introduced to three Lebanese Muslims who had confessed, under duress, to working for the Israelis in a series of car-bomb incidents that had killed 30 people and injured 100. One, an admitted addict, said he did it for drugs; the others claimed that an Israeli officer said their families in southern Lebanon would be imprisoned if they did not cooperate. A few hours later, the three men were executed at the sites of the explosions. The body...
Senior Larry Stein described his performance as "pretty poor," especially under the duress of playing with two lefthanded opponents. His troubles began on the first hole, he said, and with "The Himalayas" and "The Elephant Trap" still to go, there was not much hope for improvement...
...father has his son kidnaped and held under duress at his summer cottage in the Catskills. Strange...