Word: jabbing
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Devil's Advocate, despite its acerbic humor and visual style, is nothing like "Scream," which set the new standard for all horror or semi-horror flicks. Though the very premise of this film involves a satirical jab at the legal profession, the movie doesn't ultimately match the sly wit of Scream or the films from which it borrows. The ending, in trying to be both clever and moralistic, comes off as manipulative and uninspired--in other words, too conventionally Hollywood. It's a huge let-down after a fun build...
...meeting is letting out and a practice is starting up. Rawson, a squat, bald man is standing in a corner, instructing one of his boxers. Wearing a collared shirt and ancient plaid pants, he seems to have forgotten how men his age are supposed to act: he throws a jab at the young boxer from time to time and he's bouncing on the balls of his feet, weaving somewhat nimbly from side to side...
...mock press conference this Wednesday at Harvard Medical School, Harvard and MIT professors, Nobel laureates and physicians formally announced the incorporation of their own health maintenance organization, HMO Black--a satirical jab at managed health care...
...skills was the talk of the boxing world. What had made Tyson invincible was sheer power. When he couldn't cancel opponents within the first four rounds, he was out of ideas. When Tyson was in his mid-20s, a consensus was growing that he had no jab, no combinations, no defense. After prison he managed four wins over the fight world equivalent of crash-test dummies before he was knocked out last November by Holyfield, a boxer with solid but less than historic gifts. Then came the fight that reduced him to tearing off bits of the other...
John O'Sullivan, editor of the National Review, said in an interview on the "Today" show that the illustration is an appropriate jab at Clinton's Asian campaign donations...