Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remains nothing if not slick, though, and F for Fake still manages to stay one step ahead of the critic. Throughout the film Welles polemicizes against the expert. Who's to judge authenticity? Is there any such thing as true documentary? If not, who's to knock Welles for all this narrative cutsiness? What's the aim of art: to please the critics or the public? As long as deHory--and in this case, Welles--gets away with it, who's to condemn...
...have played with and against the best players in football since 1961 and I have to believe I belong with the best quarterbacks ever. I don't give a damn about artistry or how much velocity my pass develops or how many tight ends I can knock through a brick wall with my ball. Let the strong-arm cultists be happy with their images. I play. I play week in and week out, year in and year...
...just tell your supervisor the day before when you're coming in in the morning." Nor do Flextime employees always have to work the same number of hours each day. At Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance in Milwaukee, a few workers put in extra hours Monday through Thursday, then knock off at lunchtime Friday...
...Buddy O'Neil must feel like Sharrach, Mesach, and Abednego entering the burning, fiery furnace every time they set foot in the Palestra. The Quakers have beaten the Crimson sixteen consecutive times and hold a 73-17 series advantage. Harvard may have its best shot in ages to knock off Chuck Daly's foundering squad on Saturday...
...listen to the satirist and stop acting stupidly. It is this sense that still animates Swift's A Modest Proposal, two centuries after its original topicality. The moral certainty that once propped up satire has faded also. Wolfe is too canny to convey any advice except an implicit "knock it off." If he went further, he could easily spend the rest of his days on the chicken-salad circuit, pumping for apple-pie virtues. He would no longer be a purveyor of satire but a target...