Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also shining were the football team's one-two punch of running backs Mark Vignall and Robert Santiago who led the squad to 5-4 overall mark and a second place Ivy finish despite falling to Yale in The 101st Game...
...roader melodies like "Skin Deep" can't conceal the hard edges of old; a slight snarl lurks under Burnel's voice, even at its most unctuous. The eardrum-bursting sarcasm of songs like "Bring on the Nubiles" still lingers in the earlobe-singeing insinuations of bourgeois S&M in Punch & Judy...
...Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting out the punch line; but his obsession with visual detail finally led him down narrative blind alleys. By the end he was making not great movies but pretty pictures. In that failing he was hardly unique...
...this sounds dumb, it is because Foreman wants it to; his humor is self-effacing. He is neither dim nor punch- drunk. He has a sense of pride and confidence that seems to accompany enormous physical strength and the conviction that one is doing something right (financial solvency might play some part in this cheerful outlook as well, that and extremely early retirement). In any event, all Foreman wants to do is save souls and help young boys out of the gutter, his admitted childhood playground. "I saw some of the fellows I used to drink with standing around...
...Cantabs, now 5-1, could only manage to punch out four hits against B.C. hurler Leslie Lane-two in the pseudo instant replay seventh...