Word: punch
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After spending a lifetime being evaluated and measured up against their peers, too many Harvard students take a perverse delight in switching roles—being handed the keys to the door. Final club punch pageants, The Crimson executive “Turkey Shoot,” comp parties at a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine: all of these events are about who gets in and who gets left out. In the end, it hardly seems to matter what you’re joining to do in the first...
EVEN FASTER FOOD With its juicy burgers and extra-thick shakes, this Burgermaster, near Seattle, has lots of old-fashioned appeal. But the drive-in burger shop is surprisingly high-tech: waitresses punch orders into wi-fi-enabled Compaq iPaq handhelds. The typical meal takes just seven minutes to go from the iPaq to your...
...play didn’t emerge every time, but what Dartmouth was able to produce was more than enough to put Harvard to shame. Sometimes it was a sucker-punch of a reception, sometimes it was a where-did-that-hole-come-from...
...didn’t really matter how well that defensive strategy worked out, because the Big Green’s imitation of Harvard’s explosive style proved more effective than the authentic version. There were simply too many plays that packed too big a punch...
...prisoner of its own ambitions; it falls victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. For most of its meandering minutes, The Human Stain remains as glacial as its scenery, too cool and too detached; it never packs a genuine emotional, much less social or political, punch. Even Farely’s bitter tears, shed as she mourns the wreck of her life, fail to generate much sympathy for her character. Perhaps it’s the uneven pacing; perhaps it’s the inherently disjointed nature of this chronologically fragmented tale. In any case...