Word: jousting
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Sweep down to the field in the center, green and pulled tight and pulled apart by rubber bands of dirt. Suddenly, far beneath the ball, thwack. It snaps. The men leave their private turfs as one and crash to each other like the joust of great elks. They come together with a thundering of a team, but there is no sound. Layered in bandages, packed in ice, paralyzed, you thrash to hear the sound and there is none. Johnny Bench is in Pete Rose's arms, and the ball is high above shallow center. Everyone knows this...
...LAKE is the work of Robert Bresson, a great and trying film maker. Just as one would expect from the creator of Pickpocket and The Trial of Joan of Arc, there are scenes and images here of a terrible, severe beauty: knights dying in battle or competing in joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon...
...Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London lodgings and lonely country estates." Meyer views the basis of Holmes' immortality simply as the story of a friendship: the intellectual rationalist and his immortal physician-confidant, a man of infinite joust, the stolid, substantial, late great doctor... Sigmund Freud...
...smash yourself badly." In fact, he has. In a London repertory performance of Scapino last year, he missed his Tarzan-like lunge for the rope and broke his heel. For the next few performances he played the show in a leg cast and a wheelchair. "Just like a joust," he recalls fondly...
...fails to find the proper setting for them. Overplaying journalistic reserve, she confines her comments to less than twenty pages of general introduction and conclusion, without ever identifying the main themes of her conversations. She asks the same questions in the same order, sets up her attorneys for the joust but never allows them to begin combat with each other. Taken out of the courtroom and isolated from their opponents all too often they flail...