It's a vicious match-up as old as time and difficult for me to predict.
Albee's text makes clear that the characters have been drinking heavily before the play begins: the action becomes a vicious slugging match in which the principal couple's marriage is laid to waste.
Erdoğan has also been engaged in a vicious slanging match with opposition media, accusing reporters and commentators who criticise him of being part of a conspiracy to undermine Turkey.
Tracy Letts's much-acclaimed drama "August: Osage County" is presented as a vicious boxing match between its quarreling mother and daughter characters, in which blows are steadily dealt to the show's claims of originality.
The film starts out with a vicious fencing match that turns into a fervent mix-up which ends the relationship of the protagonist, David (Rhys Wakefield), with his girlfriend Jill (Ashley Hinshaw).
Get ready for the return of fluffy bangs, shoulder pads, and vicious croquet matches, because the stage adaptation, "Heathers: The Musical," directed by Andy Fickman, is in previews at New World Stages.
Her pace can't match the vicious beat set by Richard.
"All referees who saw this game and who have seen the general vicious malice in most matches want to tell Rous they haven't come all these miles for all this time to handle this sort of stuff," said Davidson.
But the realism may go too far: a "dynamic stains and sweat" feature adds verisimilar perspiration on clothing, skin and hair, which means long matches yield vicious pit stains.
More than 135,000 new books were published last year, which means the fight for shelf space at the local Barnes & Noble or independent bookstore is more vicious than a championship boxing match.
