Word: punch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like Schipper had no choice butto retreat to their darkened bedroom and wait, often for days, until the agony passed. Doctors could prescribe heavy-duty painkillers, but regular use often triggered even more painful episodes. Making matters worse, friends and co-workers tended to treat headache sufferers as the punch line of a bad joke, as if they were having headaches on purpose to avoid work or sex or some deeply repressed memory...
...Spider-Man 3 spent five weeks shooting in New York City, where the only thing that comes cheap is attitude. Pirates set its cast members adrift in a giant tank in the Bahamas for months. We can only imagine the rum punch bills...
...Osborn (James Franco), who has become the new Green Goblin, Spider-Man’s most dangerous foe. As a whole, the execution works. The plot doesn’t seem muddled by the two love interests and three villains, and visually, the film really rocks you hard. Every punch comes closer to knocking you off your seat, and you can feel every fall. Part of what makes the Spider-Man movie franchise so endearing is its sentimentality. You like Peter Parker, and you sympathize with him. When his Aunt May gives him loving advice, when he makes a bonehead...
...natural leader, and he relates with a lot of different guys,” Tobe said. “And he is obviously one of the best defensemen in the college game this year—very calm and composed—but he can add some offensive punch as well.”Playing professional hockey while at the same time attending one of the most competitive colleges in the nation is no easy task. Reese, an economics concentrator, could be considered the ultimate student-athlete, having to balance schoolwork for three classes with what is really a burgeoning...
...individuals and companies who are doing good for the environment, or to random, albeit promising, statistics on cutting-edge green technologies. While some readers may enjoy this approach—heavy on examples and bereft of any overarching framework—it lacks both the rigor and the punch of their discussion of environmental threats.Above all, these vignettes are weighted far too heavily toward Teresa’s comparative advantage and away from John’s. Teresa Kerry has long been noted for her commitment to environmental philanthropy, particularly for her funding of these causes in Pittsburgh and southwestern...