Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.

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Banned for life from their event after a knock-down, drag-out fight, they return from years of exile to compete as the first all-male pair.

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Indeed, he says, the TNT investigators had knock-down drag-out fights about exactly what should go in their endpoint--some researchers wanted to include stroke, some didn't.

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In both the classic 1933 movie King Kong and its 2005 remake, the King of the Apes gets in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the King of the Dinosaurs.

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Once the 2014 baseball season arrives, look for ever more knock-down drag-out fights between networks and cable companies over subscription fees, the same kind that led to Fox pulling part of the 2010 World Series between the Rangers and Giants from Cablevision in New York.

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Mr Daniels, in Indiana, has proposed a similar measure, although he opposes a move by the state legislature to allow employees in any unionised workplace to opt out of paying union dues, as Mr Walker also proposes, for fear it will spark a knock-down drag-out fight with the labour movement.

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