Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been judged a standoff, with the more experienced Russian consistently dancing out of trouble. In the second round, Jones rocked Tregubov several times and opened a nasty cut over his right eye. In the third, Jones nearly sent Tregubov to the canvas three times; the Russian was unable to punch back and lasted until the final bell strictly on guts and savvy...
...playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing off essays for Punch and conducting about 100 concerts a year with the L.S.O. and other orchestras in England and on world tour...
...satisfying experiences occurred a few years ago, when a conservatively dressed corporate recruiter at Columbia University insisted to him that clothes did not matter. It was a time when militant students were throwing recruiters off campus, and Molloy guaranteed that he could dress him so that a student would punch him in the nose. Dressed in dark blue clothing "just like a cop," the recruiter ventured back onto campus-and caught a fast one in the chops. Molloy collected his fee and won a convert...
Director Fleischer and Scenarist Silliphant are clearly interested in pulling off a neat surprise. What they sacrifice for the sake of a dramatic punch is any adequate depth or understanding of the loneliness, aimlessness and deadend desperation that might drive such a man as Kilvinsky, portrayed as a good cop and a decent human being. Like The New Centurions itself, the scene is efficient, proficient, even exciting, but so glib it finally becomes false...
What's 6 ft. 4 in. tall, throws a knockout punch, and has long furry ears? It's John Wayne, drawling veteran of over 200 he-man films, dressed up in a rabbit costume. With enthusiastic support from Laugh-ln's comedienne Sarah Kennedy, Wayne is impersonating the Easter bunny on next month's opening of Laugh-In. Acting the role of a rabbit did not come easily. When he arrived onstage, the Duke growled: "The first guy who snickers gets a broken face." After the ordeal was over, he remarked: "I felt pretty funny...