Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schedule called for a president's reception at 4 p.m., with punch and snacks, followed by a dinner in the cafeteria, followed by a question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. The big Lincoln growled round spiny hills whose flanks were flecked with dead old cars, over swollen brown rivers, through towns where businessmen affect three-piece suits the color of certain gaudy birds-the passengers being made tardier by the minute...
...knowing wink. "King Oliver heard Louis as he passed by in the street. When I started playing trumpet I would practice with my horn pointed out the window in the hope that Louis might drive by." Lester smiled like and old pro as he works up for his punch line: "Louis never heard me, but the neighbors sure...
Called the "prince of post-modernist trumbet-with-a-punch" in a recent Down Beat article, Bowie began his rise to jazz stardom in the early sixties, working with "doo-wop" bands, and backing the likes of Albert King and Joe Tex. He moved to Chicago in the mid-'60s, became a part of the "Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians," and in 1965 the critically acclaimed "Art Ensemble of Chicago...
...series, "will be resolutely American, with no foreign reporting," says Kuralt, "and celebratory in tone. We do not expect to find any scandals or scoundrels." Segments this week include whimsical essays by Kuralt, political humor by Art Buchwald, a report by Correspondent Bill Kurtis asking whether Muhammad Ali is punch-drunk, and a story by Correspondent Andrew Lack about a boy with a malady that his parents diagnosed when doctors could not. Plus, of course, an On the Road about a Missouri man who writes down the names of everyone he has ever met. The show is somewhat controversial within...
...punch line is snowballing into a social phenomenon independent of product or sponsor. While such commercial catch phrases as "This Bud's for you," "Reach out and touch someone" and "Nothing beats a great pair of L'eggs" have become well known, few have been adopted so rapidly into everyday speech or been so thoroughly merchandised...