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After a few skirmishes, the Catalonian troops were ready to deal the death blow.
After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
The first round of talks, held in Beijing Tuesday, was largely devoted to trading accusations over last week's naval skirmishes and complaining about the accommodations in the hotel, except for the part about the hotel.
NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich, who reported on his share of culture-war skirmishes as the paper's chief theater critic in the 1980s and early '90s, weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum's week-old exhibit "Sensation."
These sequences carry a post-Vietnam aura of futility, and the scenes between the skirmishes are similarly modern, full of rambling talk and post- Godot waiting around.