Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plays a game with the characters and situations and we too are meant to enjoy the technique and craftsmanship of the film rather than be involved in it. Ross strives for the light touch; as a result, however, while the film has humor, it's never given enough punch to be truly funny. We notice the humor, but we don't experience it. Similarly, the film as a whole is too inhibited to be exciting. Even an old-fashioned swashbuckling scene--Holmes dueling on the top of a train with Devereaux's abductor--lacks suspense. It's played for camp...
There are a few very fine pieces in Titters. They have been reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, The New York Times, G.P. Putnam's and Punch. But for the most part Titters consists of new work by women you've happily never heard...
...want to write for the best collegiate sports staff around, be here Wednesday or Thursday night. It's the best punch you've had all year...
...Mexican fritters," as one Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly one of the warheads was exploded underground before a U.S.-Soviet ban on such testing of bombs of more than 150 kilotons went into effect this year...
...most other matters, the '70s have not yet been named. Historians looking back on American art in the '60s see movements and orthodoxies?Pop art, minimal art, conceptual art, Op art, color-field painting, doctrines about flatness and framing edge, proscriptions, mandates. The categories rattle briskly like punch cards in their slots. Art in the '70s is more polymorphous, less ambitious, harder to sort out. The present creed proclaims belief in the Either, the Or and the Holy Both...