Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although their potential is usually kept very much in the background. Ike's lead guitar, too, is incredibly understated, considering his brilliance. Yet such self-restraint is an outstanding feature of the Turners' consummate professionalism. Ike builds a song carefully; anything held back now will simply provide a bigger punch later. The Ikettes sing, dance, and occasionally play maracas. They are essential to the vitality of the show; their choreography translates the rhythmic structure of each song into visual terms. To an effete spectator, it could easily seem corny: the Ikettes hopping around like possessed go-go girls with...
John N. DePetris, manager of the Dunster Dining Hall, said that the new coke machine has not made much difference at Dunster House. The regular beverages are still popular and only the consumption of fruit punch has shown any measurable decrease...
...bore no small personal grudge against these old heroes. Mailer, at a Manhattan party in his honor promoting The Armies of The Night, when we were both independently drunk, smote me a kidney-punch which may have been intended as friendly, but it hurt like hell and angered me. Styron, having written a private letter in praise of my first novel, hit me with a negative response when I inquired whether his endorsement might be converted to promotional purposes. I no longer pretend that Styron's blow was not the more painful. Still, I thought enough of both as artists...
...eight hours every day, says Henry Belcher, a 40-year-old welder, "I am as much a machine as a punch press or a drill motor is." With that comment, he sums up a crucial reason for the autoworker militancy that led to the strike against General Motors. Most of the men on the assembly line hate their jobs-with a bitterness that can hardly be understood by anybody who performs interesting tasks in comfortable surroundings. At best, reports TIME'S Correspondent David DeVoss, the auto worker's routine is a daily voyage from tedium to apathy, dominated...
...offense is likely to have more punch-certainly not less. A pro-type offense seems to be in the making, though it remains to be seen if Yovicsin has a passer at his disposal. He came to Harvard with a reputation for strong passing teams, but Ric Zimmerman has been the only quarterback here to provide the Crimson with an air attack...