Word: jugulars
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Mondale lacked a true jugular instinct, missing several openings to bore in. The debate clearly served to air issues that have been somewhat submerged in the campaign thus far. For viewers, the debate was a reassuring reminder of the fundamental strengths of America's democratic process. If it did not produce a closer race, it produced a far more interesting...
Bush, the well-bred Ivy Leaguer, does not attack his opponents very convincingly. Instead of going for the jugular, he often feints and pricks without cutting deep. Too often he seems to think out loud, and his hand gestures tend to be imperfectly synced with his speech. In a recent address at the Illinois capital, his lampoon of Mondale had a schoolboy quality. "I must say, I'd hate to be Walter Mondale these days," said Bush. "I do, I honestly do feel sorry for Fritz Mondale at times. He's a negative sort of guy. Whenever...
...Dante movie is a lot like the now vicious, now mischievous gremlins. He adroitly makes his characters seem to aim straight for the jugular, then along the way, find something more diverting to do with all that energy. Whenever the occasion permits, Dante loves to undercut the visceral impact of the horror genre with a clip from an old movie or a spitballing, pratfalling sight gag. His loopy werewolf melodrama, The Howling (1981), and his profligately imaginative episode of last year's Twilight Zone: The Movie are both energized by this sly schizophrenia. In Twilight Zone, the smile becomes...
...compensates for the music's static quality by moving the cast around a bit too hectically. The second act, however, is spectacular. It depicts a ferocious battle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, replete with whizzing crossbow arrows and hurtling fireballs. Conductor James Levine goes straight for the jugular, giving Francesco's high quotient of lust and mayhem its full...
...fatal shot hit the archduke in the jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said...