Word: punch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With a roster barely large enough to field a complete side, the Harvard field hockey team didn't have many places to turn for the added punch in its opening weekend...
...uncomfortable) as I am agreeing with politicians, especially when they are in righteous find-a-scapegoat campaign mode, I'm annoyed that this "adult" culture is aimed at the young - both because kids need a few years to be kids, without being burdened by having to understand the punch line of every dirty joke, and also because this culture debases the true definition of the phrase "adult entertainment...
...Savon doesn't have the quickness of the younger fighters he'll face. But his devastating right hand still has enough punch to knock opponents into the next Olympiad. "Stevenson had his time--this time is mine," Savon told TIME as his five small children climbed his chiseled 6-ft. 5-in., 201-lb. frame at his Havana home. "I will give everything in my power to win that third gold medal." Savon would probably be fighting for his fourth, if Cuba hadn't boycotted the 1988 Games...
...someone had made a truly light, witty and funny commercial - the ad that this spot claims to be - it wouldn't have been red-meat enough to please the party hacks. Instead, "Really" sounds not just nasty but tone deaf, down to what should have been a classic punch line: "(Gore:) 'I took the initiative in creating the Internet.' Yeah, and I invented the remote control, too." It's a beauty - right up until that final and redundant "too," which utterly screws up the rhythm of the joke and would have been cut by anyone with an ear for idiomatic...
Chalk it up to The Sixth Sense or the spiritual-supernatural drama Touched by an Angel, but the departed are no longer taking death lying down. And the spirits of TV present are no longer mere bogeymen or punch lines. They're, well, spiritual spirits: kindly characters, cast in emotional plots, who succor more than scare...