Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being treated inside--she is courteous and composed, and thoroughly...
...most striking part of this book--and, of course, what will make it sell--is Richards' openness. Though the book reads like a long string of one-sentence declarations, these certainly pack a punch. Richards shows considerable guts in spelling everything out; she discusses her relationships in painstaking detail, emphasizing that through it all both Dick and Renee have always been heterosexual. Raskind, it seems, spent a lot of time reworking his own body within limits. For instance, he used to tie his penis behind his rear end to hide it. Before his emasculation he would sleep with...
...Riley in several one-on-one reflex action rallies. Scott seemed to elevate himself to a much higher level of play. Whereas one would expect Sands, an All-American, to have to nurture the freshman through the match and carry the pair, it was Scott who contributed the unexpected punch he attacked fiercely and went for frequent wide-alley slams, catching his opponents off guard...
...still moments, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) can marvel at sun-sets recite poetry and say. "It seems like there's got to be some place without greasers and socs--there's got to be some place with just plain of people." Any by the film's before throwing a punch...
...insurgents' assault intensified dramatically in January with a media one-two punch. First came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...