Word: swordplay
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...Such swordplay was what the world expected of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's oldest child, widely described as the "other Washington Monument," who died in 1980 at the age of 96. Friends saw something more. Near death, she roused herself to reprove a guest for being too polite: "I will not have good manners in my house." But as this fascinating, sharply observed biography makes clear, courage and an edged wit were not Alice Longworth's only strong qualities. She was also unfailingly selfish and intermittently cruel. The ruling event of her life came shortly after her birth, when...
...After monitoring the channel for two weeks, the watchdog organization found an average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high as on the three networks. Among the offenses: space battles in the Disney film The Black Hole, swordplay in an adaptation of Stevenson's Kidnapped, fistfights in Rin Tin Tin and the cartoon antics of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs...
...leaders, who were not assuaged by the fact that Kohl and his Cabinet members have promised to take a 5% cut in salary. Union leaders closeted themselves with the new Chancellor after he returned from France for what was described by a union aide as an afternoon of "economic swordplay." Ernst Breit, leader of the country's 8 million-member German Trade Union Confederation termed the wage-freeze idea "totally unnegotiable." Even among pro-business spokesmen, who generally support Kohl, the wage-freeze idea was greeted with trepidation. Rolf Rodenstock, president of the Cologne-based Federation of German Industry...
...other hand, he and his fight designer B. H. Barry could make a grand horror film. Bary has devised some grisly and hair-raising swordplay, the air aswish with deadly blades as a drunken, robotized Cassio slashes anything on all sides; or the stunning moment when lago plants a kiss fully on Rodrigo's lips and knife between his ribs (Plummer is a murderouly bisexual monster). Then there are images worthy of Halloween: Desdomona, tiny and exposed before her night table, singing a bed-time song, with Amelia's sudden entrances from the shadows creating delightful frissons; Desdemona draped horizontally...
...years, was just cutting up with Actor Toshiro Mifune (Tom! Tom! Tom!), 61, during a recent visit to Japan. On location in Kyoto with the cast of The Equals, a CBS movie due out next year, Paley cast an experienced samureye on the set before joining Mifune in light swordplay. Affecting a traditional shogun stance, the CBS chairman cried: "Critics beware...