Word: punch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What is it like being a perpetual punch line? Florida has known the feeling ever since the presidential election debacle of 2000. And now, it has the creeping feeling that the joke may be on it again as it tries to figure out how to get its delegates seated in the Democratic convention...
...crystal-clear water. Everyone’s having a good time, right? Immediately the scene cuts to a beachside menage-a-trois. Talk about throwing a bone to the audience. The movie eventually collapses into a sloppy mess. The dialogue is inane and stale, and the attempts at witty punch lines and dry humor consistently fall flat. The generic suspense movie soundtrack also gets boring fast. Few of the characters in this story have any on-screen chemistry at all. The pace of the film is quick but jerky, and the first half seems disconnected from the second. Finally...
...weakness in comparison to Obama's operation. If these factors once again add up to a big-state win, Clinton's team is sure to argue to the superdelegates that only she has the toughness necessary to survive the fall campaign and that Obama can't land the knockout punch. For a party still ruing the glass-jawed vulnerability of its 2004 nominee, John Kerry, this argument will likely pack some selling power...
...class but to the servant class." He could weave the story of his son cooking a cake with too much salt into a parable about the perils of gay marriage. He could perfectly capture the struggles of Mitt Romney's campaign with a joke about expensive dog food. The punch line: "The dogs won't eat the darn stuff...
...easiest of victories for the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team, but it was an important one. The Crimson (29-1-0) defeated Cornell (12-19-1), 4-2, Saturday evening at Bright Hockey Center to sweep the conference quarterfinal series and punch its ticket to the ECAC semifinals.“It was a battle, we knew it was going to be a battle,” junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt said. “We knew we had to come out hard.”Junior Sarah Wilson scored the game-winner just 15 seconds...