Word: gallantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frenzied, festival atmosphere of the seaport city of Barcelona sets the stage. After reading a few too many legends of gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued...
...pals send up a chorus of envy and disapproval. The acting is sharp, and Bill Duke's direction is realistically grounded. But writer Ivan Menchell Neil Simonizes loss. He can be funny in variously glib and cozy ways. What's beyond him is the kind of laughter, gallant and sardonic, that can brace and inspire us in adversity...
Dutchmen sophomore goalie Mike Gallant (one of Union's three goalies from Ontario) kept his team in it the whole way, stopping 38 shots, 17 in the third stanza...
...fact, Delventhal said he might try to enlist the services of engineering students at Union to construct a device to help Gallant against the Crimson...
...secret," Delventhal said jokingly. "Our engineering department has designed a plastic shield that would sit behind the goal and throw Gallant's image on to the ice to try and trick Harvard...