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Thirty-four points. That's the latest line on how brutally Army (1-1) is supposed to pummel the Harvard football team (1-0) today at West Point...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Gridders Must Overcome Cadets And Odds Today | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...tough and sexy and nurturing. She is a teenage waif's very best surrogate mother. She can come on strong to a stud stranger at the local bar; she'll buy him a drink. But Warshawski is faster with a kick than a caress. Any hulk who tries to pummel some manners into her will get his genitals twisted in a nutcracker. And at the end of the new movie named after her, she will offer the same tweaking to her boyfriend. Somebody in V.I. Warshawski has the right phrase for this all-man all-woman: "a female dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't A Woman Be a Man? | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Prosecutors accuse Mandela and her guards of having abducted Kgase and the three others from a Methodist shelter and of then trying to pummel them into saying they had had sex with a white minister. Mandela says the youths were taken to her home only to protect them from the clergyman. The minister has been cleared by his church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Back on The Stand | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

AEROBICS is, first and foremost, a vain activity. You dress up like a teenager from Mars, pummel your body for an hour, and then boast to friends that you are getting "toned...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...eight printings totaling more than 100,000 copies, still sells an average of 1,000 a week. Spiegelman's tale is a hellish metaphor for history; Miller's is an evocation of pop apocalypse. Spiegelman draws simply, with calculated primitivism, while Miller is a boisterous stylist whose pictures dazzle, pummel, streak past the eye. The books have nothing in common except their success and a term that has been coined to describe them and others that are breaking off the newsstands and comic specialty shops and invading bookstores: graphic novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passing of Pow! and Blam! | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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