Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is something like the Fractured Fairy Tales that used to separate Rocky from Bullwinkle, is moderately interesting. It holds everything together, too, which is just as well: the show's strength lies less in individual moments (some people admire the big bondage-and-discipline number, but its inevitable punch-line. "We've got nothing to lose but our chains," is an awful long time coming) than in its unflagging continuity in a texture which-as a friend from Lampoon explained to me--soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up wine...
...enjoy the practicing itself," Lefkowitz told me. "But practicing that much really doesn't mean anything. Sometimes it's a crutch to practice as much as I do. You think, 'I can just punch the clock, put in my time, and there's no way I can't make astounding progress.' What I'd really like to be able to do is say to myself, today I'll practice twice as hard for four or five hours, and tomorrow I won't practice at all. But if I miss one day, I panic. I feel incredibly guilty. There's this...
...relieve the physical and mental strain. Scuffles and raised voices are rare, but they have happened when someone tries to jump the line. "Sometimes a lady will faint," says Bill Peters, 34, the office manager, "but in all my time here [18 months], I've seen only one punch thrown...
...nearly any nation, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of L'Express and head of France's Radical Party, fears that the day is fast approaching when Paris will sell atomic arms. The U.S. has provided half a dozen nations with planes or missiles capable of delivering a nuclear punch, as have the Soviets...
...someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...