Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incessant concern to keep Matthau beautiful, Lemmon takes away dimension from everyone but Winters. Kotch's children are Punch and Judy, and his neighbors caricatures. Moreover, the soupy conclusion tends to weaken all that went before. Kotch is "family" entertainment, but in its anxiety to please, it eventually cloys. It is a yes-man of a movie that Joseph P. Kotcher would have disdained...
...action facilitated by his increasing size and bulk. To hear him tell his adventures, he is a biblical avenger with a charmed life. Armed punks beg for mercy after a dose of his righteous fists. During World War II, he cold-cocks a Navy boxing champion with one punch. Japanese machine-gun bullets buzz between his legs as comrades fall around him. Nearly 15 years later, Muller's luck even holds when he stops a thief's bullet with his skull...
...JIMMY STEWART SHOW (NBC). At 63, the still-winning old star finds himself in a not very winning extended-family situation. Stewart plays an idiosyncratic anthropology professor who wears a hairpiece and a ten-gallon hat, says grace with a gag punch line, and plays the accordion. His younger son and his grandson, as it happens, are both eight year olds ("Now you know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy...
Three other teams pose serious threats to Harvard's title defense. Columbia and Penn will be just as strong as last year, and Brown exhibited some new scoring punch in Tuesday's 5-0 win over...
...that has changed now. For two years Penn and Harvard battled nose-to-nose, and both years Harvard had the last punch by winning at the Easterns. But last spring an upstart Navy crew embarrassed both Ivy teams by crushing the competition. The days of dynasties were over, and the heavies are competitive again. With strong teams such as Brown and Northeastern and Rutgers threatening to upset the old rulers. Harvard will be fighting to win each race this spring...