Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lurie has set herself the task of focusing your curiosity on a stranger. Since the subject lacks initial interest, the style is crucial. Sometimes Lurie fails to realize that the punch line of a memory is easier to deal with if you were there, and her reflections are smothered by commonplace observations and a chummy attitude toward Lang. She doesn't come through with the kind of technique that gets around your indifference to, say, Gorey's insomnia, often enough: "I went upstairs. Ted had been up for hours he said. 'I don't really like sleeping lately,' he apologized...
Afterwards he appears from nowhere. The promoter, Speed (James Coburn) turns around and there he is across the table. The next day Bronson shows his stuff-one punch and the fight is over. Speed has got a partner, a real winner, and he's thrilled and jabbering. They split the cash and take the train to New Orleans, Bronson silent. "Any more questions?" he always asks. At the station he just leaves; he wants to check out the town. Not to worry, Speed, Bronson will find you when he needs the dough. He does, and the movie unfolds, Bronson...
...hitherto unheard-of hour of 9:30 in the morning. Police claim crime is down 10%, largely because they no longer have to spend so much of their energies controlling political demonstrations. One veteran foreign observer of Indian affairs believes Mrs. Gandhi "administered to the country a massive punch in the jaw, which it probably needed." He adds that if the government can bring the emergency to an end within six months, "the retrospective view will be that it has benefited the country and given a badly needed shock to a society whose values were crumbling...
...however, some sane people, who, while Red Sox fanatics, do occasionally remove their socks, if only for a brief moment. Why just the other day I saw a pair of socks lying on the bathroom floor, but when I went to pick it up, it beat me to the punch and just walked away...
...rounds, three separate battles were fought. The first three rounds belonged to Ali. He landed clean, quick, stinging shots that made Frazier sag, and he blunted Frazier's headlong attack by blocking punches as he backed against the ropes. When Ali went hunting, it was on flat feet, in search of the knockout punch. But he never found it. In Round 4, the second battle began. Frazier, having weathered his customary slow start, set to work, pounding lefts to the chin through Ali's gloves. He bothered Ali on the ropes with more uppercuts, body punches and fast...