Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That left Allard to deliver the knockout punch to Northeastern pitcher O'Leary, a two-run blast over the 340-foot sign in right field...
...bravado in telling the press that he had floored two insulting Dodger fans in a hotel elevator during last year's World Series seems to reflect the same willingness to trade the truth for attention. No one, after all, ever found the fans Steinbrenner claims to have punched out. Schaap accounts for the "phantom punch" by suggesting that the bruised fist the owner raised as proof of his triumph actually resulted from Steinbrenner's striking the elevator wall himself, enraged after the Bombers' loss...
...MOST WINNING PART of this winning picture is the deeply felt characters that writer and director Barry Levinson has sketched out. Most complex, perhaps, is Fenwick (Kevin Bacon), whom we first see punching out window panes at a dance because on a whim he has just sold for five dollars the girl he brought. At first he seems like a typical 1950s tough, who is alternating between boasting and acting morose, playing sick practical jokes on his buddies, and finally flipping out at a nativity scene, stripping to his short and insisting on playing little baby Jesus. But Fenwick...
...finally .. . but it would not be proper to reveal Pryor's punch line to the grim joke life played on him; and there are words best left to R-rated movies. Pryor uses them all, relentlessly and with relish. For him-as for Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent-profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners. It remains for his fearless comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take...
...life without another climax immediately in view. Now it has found him. In his early days with Lemmings, he had mocked celebrity burnout with the All-Star Dead Band - Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. Less than a decade later, the samurai comic had provided another ghastly punch line to his own joke. This time, no one was laughing...