Word: brawls
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...Berrigans'," proclaiming that "we will make bombs, find guns; we will burn, trash and destroy." That is not what the Berrigans have ever preached, as Greeley well knows. But it is a symptom of the rage that runs through the novel. Kennedy's fighting Irish brawl, then hug and forgive. Greeley tries to allow his to do the same, but while the ritual words are pronounced, the absolution never quite seems to come. -By Mayo Mohs
...Rhoads' path and slugged him. The pair tussled for several moments before they were pulled apart. It was the first time that violence had marred the orderly processes of the Illinois legislature since, um ... ten days earlier, when armed officers were called in to break up a brawl on the floor of the house...
...budget brawl overshadowed a struggle on a second front: Reagan's push "or his broad multiyear tax cut. There are no serious problems with the Republican-controlled Senate. In fact, Russell Long, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. told the President at a White House meeting, "You have the votes in the Senate to pass your tax bill." At that session, Long's Louisiana colleague, Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, urged inclusion in the package of a "trigger mechanism'' that would eliminate a proposed third year of tax cuts if deficits rose too high. But Reagan...
Flying wings and flying boats. A car chase and a barroom brawl. Abduction by submarine. Supernatural forces. A brainy professor who turns into a roguish soldier of fortune between semesters. A heroine who talks tough, loves hard and punches with either hand. A traitorous monkey-yes, a treacherous little bundle of chattering fur who constantly betrays the good guys until he is dispatched by a poisoned date, not a minute too soon...
...White House and takeover. They are always doing things like catching bazooka shells in their bare hands and blowing tanks out of their path with about as much breath power as an ordinary mortal uses to douse a candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that...