Word: jabbing
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Though a plot as old as The Hill's can well be a handicap, U.S. Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker) nails the action of this spiky British drama into so taut a frame that an audience can feel every jab in the belly, taste every mouthful of dust. It is less easy to hear the dialogue, much of it delivered in accents too angry or authentic for swift comprehension. Yet the lines thrown away are scarcely missed because Lumet crowds the screen with strong, spare imagery built around the fearful mound. After a ghastly ordeal on the hill, filmed...
...call for an international summit meeting to reform the world's monetary system (TIME, July 16). Said French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing: "The suggested procedure of calling an international conference on this subject does not appear opportune." Though many experts interpreted this politely phrased jab as a flat rejection, the fact was that Giscard d'Estaing said much the same thing that Fowler had said-that considerable negotiating has to be done before a summit can be convened. The Frenchman put it in a negative and scary way to remind the world that France...
...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
Ernie's basic strategy was to jab, feint and collapse on top of Eddie. Eddie's strategy was martyrdom. In the first round, Ernie bloodied Eddie's nose; in the 15th, he tackled him and knocked him to the canvas. In between, Ernie massaged the back of Eddie's neck and the seat of his pants. For good measure, he gave the referee a couple of pats too. That won him a unanimous decision that 6,587 fans booed for 15 minutes. Said Joe Louis, who spent the evening suffering in Ernie's corner: "Terrell...
Jack D'Arcy of Dudley House scored a TKO over Leverett's Bill O'Day in the 145-pound class. D'Arcy displayed a powerful left jab that almost closed O'Day's right eye. D'Arcy also beat O'Day in last year's tournament...