Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There might have been a punch thrown in that Ali--uh you know, whatsisname fight last night. Somebody could have gotten hurt...I definitely want the movie rights to the Alfredo Evangelista story. It opens with this guy running up the front steps of the Prado while disco/flamenco music plays in the background...When a fight goes two rounds, there are three commercials; when a fight goes 15 rounds, there are 32. So what was Cosell complaining about?...Be sure to catch that new film biography of the Champ, which will be opening at your local theaters later this month...
...title that pokes fun at cliche by blowing it up, flaunting it, the way pop art does, as though it were profound. It works on the principle that the inverse of any cliche may well be a joke, since the essence of a cliche is predictability, while the punch line of a joke arises from the inappropriateness of a response to a situation. Rearrange a cliche or put it where it doesn't belong, and it becomes perversely funny, knocking your sense of normalcy out of kilter. But there's a catch. If a cliche isn't entirely...
...crews entered the third 500 meters, Harvard's strongest leg, it began to look as if the oarsmen would deliver the knockout punch for win number 27 in the streak. But with 800 meters to go, the oarsmen, for the first time this spring, saw an opponent's boat closing...
Going beyond the inexperience, there is a simple derth of middies who pack offensive punch, and that is why coach Bob Scalise has had to shuffle his units all spring. He has had to make do without graduated 1976 regulars McCall, Bruce Bruckmann, Gilles Whalen, and Andy Gellis. Mike Faught, exiled to the bench as a reserve attackman in the early going, is the only middie to garner as many as ten points. Forbush, who connected eight times last year, is still without a goal this time around. Bobby Mellen, who got a goal a game in 1976, has been...
...this, Stover's first Boston concert since his trek south, be prepared for his lightning picking, a little banjo frailing and some rare Stover guitar-flatpicking. Tickets are $4, kids under 12 free; call 492-0415 for more info. Coffee and punch served free, bring some home-baked munchies and an instrument for the after-show pickin' party...