Word: punch
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...show lie mainly in David Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show...
...most Americans, the term moderate Taliban would be an oxymoron, not unlike "middle-of-the-road Nazi"--just a joke in search of a punch line. So when Secretary of State Colin Powell cautiously endorsed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's view that such members of the repressive Afghan regime might have a role to play in a future coalition government, many people shared the same reaction as the partisans in the conflict. Both the Northern Alliance's Foreign Minister and the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan declared defiantly, "There's no such thing...
...never fails: just when you need it most, your cell phone runs out of juice. For moments like that, keep handy the new Instant Power Charger ($10, plus $20 for a connecting cable) from Electric Fuel. It generates power chemically, no wall socket required, and it packs enough punch to recharge your phone three times over. Best of all, it fits into your shirt pocket. For more info, charge over to www.electric-fuel.com...
Members of the club, which was founded in 1795 as a 21-member secret society, plan to poster the Yard this week to advertise the fall punch...
...first round of the punch process, taking place next week, will be open to all undergraduates for the first time in the club’s history...