Word: swordfight
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...Presidente de Tourvel, whom he claims to have fallen in love with, and La Marquise de Mertueil, who holds considerable power over him. The sense of unspoken attachment between Leach and Brawley is perhaps too good, because this turn of events does not seem believable. There is a fatal swordfight between Valmont and Le Chevalier Danceny that continues for too long, stretching out the play's final scenes when they should be compressed to make the downfall of Valmont and Mertueil seem more instantaneous and overwhelming...
...expected and the unexpected. For example, the duels, which in many productions are played with phony rapiers, are here done by arming each actor with a pair of hard-wood blocks. They clap these blocks together without hitting each other, creating a rhythmic swordfight that is near deafening in the acoustically alive theater...
...Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into a spiritual godhead, an Oudpensky for our times. But somebody jumped the stakes on old Chet, and marked the deck--his final performance began with him crawling out of the rectum of a dead elephant to conduct a swordfight with a pitching machine, and ended with him throwing up on the mayor of New York. It was time to go home...
Tops in Taps. Brooks is a 24-hour clown who never stops performing. On the set, directing one of his own gags, he crumples to the floor and lies there clutching his sides with laughter. Between takes he lurches into an imaginary swordfight with one of his actors. Minutes later he is airily winging it through Gene Kelly's Singin 'in the Rain dance sequence, crying at top volume, "Fellini and Dick Lester are great directors, but are they tops in taps...
Sophomore Peter Rosenfield-Munch. Who learned to swordfight in his native Argentina, led Lowell House's two-man fencing team to the house championship in the three day competition that concluded last night...