Word: knockouts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like two wary prizefighters, each convinced that he will win by a decision if only he can avoid being kayoed, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter last week feinted and jabbed, bobbed and weaved. If either had a knockout punch, he kept it under wraps. That was true throughout the week, but most emphatically during the third and final presidential debate...
...significant numbers of Democrats are lukewarm about him and cannot be taken for granted. Several of Carter's key primary victories were achieved with about one-third of the vote, and many of the others were against weak opposition. In a sense, Carter won by a decision, not a knockout, after staggering through the final rounds...
With no hope for a quick knockout, the four leading Democratic candidates for President settled down last week for a long and bruising slugfest. Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson and George Wallace were tirelessly crisscrossing Florida for this week's primary; Morris Udall was gamely trying to pull together the party's liberals before his next major outings on April 6 in New York and Wisconsin. Thus for the moment the candidates were still hoping to win the fight on points by picking up enough delegates in the party's caucuses and primaries to gain an overwhelming advantage...
However thin, Ford's victory seriously stalled Reagan's strategy of seeking a quick knockout in the early primaries-a gamble that could leave Reagan without the will and resources for the long difficult fight now necessary to eliminate Ford. Reagan contended that he was "happy" to "come out with a virtual tie with the incumbent President." His showing was indeed impressive in a historical context, but in fact his aides expected him to win. Now Reagan badly needs to defeat Ford in Florida to erase the "Reagan can't win" label that Ford...
Foreign Correspondent, quite simply, is a knockout. It contains one of Hitchcock's most amazing technical achievements, shooting a plane crash into the ocean from the inside, and one of his best plot clues, involving counter-clockwise windmills. One is again reminded, in this film, of Hitchcock's theory that the best way to make a screen villain memorably terrifying is to make him likeable, and the wonderful British actor Herbert Marshall is, in Foreign Correspondent perhaps the most likeable of all Hitchcock's malfeasants...