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...used to punish pressure," Cormier said. "We used to use it as an offensive weapon. Now, we say, 'Phew' when we get it over and once we get it over, then we had to contend with the best half-court defense in the league...
...phew! As played by Kim Basinger, Nadia lacks what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness. She is simply a whiner. Director Edwards (The Party, S.O.B.) is a great farceur, and he has plenty of classic comic conventions to play with: elegant cars and parties to crash, a decorous wedding to subvert. But glum Nadia defeats him. A film promising knockout knockabout comedy finally seems merely knocked...
...Phew! It was enough to raise the prospect of a constitutional crisis. The Queen, after all, is expected in her capacity as head of state to exercise absolute impartiality. Both Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street promptly doused the incendiary report. "Absolute rubbish!" insisted a spokesman for the Prime Minister. "Entirely without foundation," echoed a spokesman for the Queen. But most Members of Parliament, like much of the country, believed that the leaks, though perhaps not authorized, accurately reflected the Queen's views...
...refreshingly avoided any whiff of pre-broadcast self-righteousness. NBC and actual returns be damned: at 8 p.m. EST, CBS declared Reagan the winner. ABC followed suit at 8:13; NBC at 8:31. Phew. All that holding back...
Walker redeemed himself playing alongside Kevin Shaw at second doubles, when he put away three consecutive overheads to win the tiebreaker (5-2), the second set (7-6), the individual match (6-3, 7-6), and the team match. Harvard (phew) had passed its first serious test of the '78 campaign in first-rate fashion...