Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large measure to the brilliantly imaginative staging of Director H. Wesley Balk, 32, who views the fable as a discourse on "spiritual realities, which run from earthy paganism to ethereal mysticism and back again, with lots of love, lust, violence and cruelty in between." To lend more punch to the love and lust departments, Balk deftly reworked several of the couplets, whose stiffly literal translation he believes is the major reason why Wise Woman previously failed in the U.S. Thus...
...long career as a British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge, 61, one time editor of Punch, has more than earned his reputation as an incorrigible professional iconoclast. Muggeridge is never happier than when assaulting the Establishment - any Establishment. "A royal soap opera," was his considered judgment, in the Saturday Evening Post, of Britain's royal family. Last week, in the lively New York Review of Books, Critic Muggeridge opened fire on a transatlantic target: the John F. Kennedy legend...
Each reply to the questionnaire is being coded on a punch card to facilitate automatic processing. Preliminary results should be available in six to eight weeks, and the Planning Office will then prepare an informal memorandum summarizing the findings, according to Goyette...
Penn has the Ivy League's best one-two punch in guard Jeff Neuman and forward Stan Pawlak. Both were among the League's top six scorers last year with 16-point averages; Neuman is a fantastic ball-handler and a great passer to boot. John Hellings, who stands 6-8, gives Penn solid rebounding strength...
...Hollywood farce, except that Wilder isn't celebrating sex as a gloriously human temptation; he is exploiting it as a commodity -and he wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty jokes, it will probably evoke a shock wave of self-conscious laughter and pass swiftly into oblivion...