Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, about the only negative things that acquaintances could find to tell reporters about him were that he loves to sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
Like his countryman Graham Parker, Costello combines the punch of early rock forms with very contemporary lyrics. In Radio, Radio he jabs at Top 40 conservatism that he feels has helped throttle pop creativity for a decade...
Washington will not be playing, either. Though the big forward said he'd reacted instinctively when he threw the punch, N.B.A. Commissioner Larry O'Brien was unconvinced. O'Brien ordered Washington to sit out a minimum of 60 days without pay (which will cost him some $50,000 in salary) and fined him $10,000. It was the largest financial penalty in sports history...
...three exceptions prove that rule. George Price's angular eccentrics have been celebrated for 45 years; his latest work, Browse at Your Own Risk (Simon & Schuster; 128 pages; $7.95), is aptly titled. The risk is seizures of mirth that render the reader helpless. Price's pen and punch line are, as always, off the wall: "My mother doesn't even bother to come to the games," complains one halfback as he watches an old lady buck the line. Explains a widow to friends: "He didn't really die of anything. He was a hypochondriac." Nonsense...
...leering sex jokes on ABC, consummation is intriguingly scarce. Characters who want to have sex rarely do; double-entendre punch lines often trail off into pregnant pauses; Suzanne Somers, the blonde bombshell comedienne of Three's Company, never does fall out of her many scanty outfits. On those rare occasions when characters do philander-notably on Soap-a price is exacted, either in the form of acute mental anguish or Old Testament-style retribution. The conflict between current manners and old-fashioned values is powerfully frustrating; every time a show heats viewers up, it douses them with a cold...