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Siegel is a film maker who works mostly within the conventions of the action movie. His films move with a closely calculated, irresistible momentum. He also has an explosive talent for violence that turns his action scenes (like a bank robbery in Dirty Harry) into set pieces that pummel the senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outside Society | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...three or four rounds, the strategy seemed to work. Keep the feet planted firmly on the mat, dodge Frazier's punches, guard the kidneys with the bobbing elbows, wait for an opening, and then . . . connect. Frazier would be smoked out before he could pummel Ali's body into submission...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: On the Ropes | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

Frazier tracked him relentlessly, often missing but sometimes landing one big body blow after another. Frazier's whole strategy was to pummel Clay's body and arms, something which the in-close fighting allowed him to do all too often. After round ten, Ali was badly bruised and exhausted from all the dodging...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: On the Ropes | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

...girl in a subway car flaunts herself before a softspoken, conservatively dressed black boy, goads him into venting his pent-up fury at whites, and then knifes him to death. Jones achieved his own symbolic revenge soon after in his play The Toilet where a group of black boys pummel a white boy to death and leave him with his head dangling in a high school lavatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rolling Thunder | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Thus, Oregon may find that, as in the ancient fable, the young lad has run off with the bacon while the two giants pummel each other for possession

Author: By Jack Friedman, | Title: Wayne Morse Fights For Political Life | 2/10/1968 | See Source »

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