Word: punch
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...line [for what I’m doing after graduation] is “the journey,” which makes people want to punch me in the face. Really, I have no idea. I had thought about acting, but it’s so chancy that I’m not sure. It’ll definitely be something in the arts, probably television—it’s what I was weaned on, so I imagine I may fall into that, but we’ll see, something that’s artistically enriching and what...
...serves up a chilly nu-metal acoustic-rock vibe, and a pleasant circular vocal melody. But most of the album’s songs lack the focused, melodic hooks that have made their influences so successful. The album starts with a limp minute-long guitar intro, hardly the punch in the face that any over-worked A&R talent scout would find appealing. A number of consecutive songs are in the exact same key and tempo, making it difficult to discern one song from the next. Shopping an album like this around, the duo might have difficulty getting signed...
...disinvited many of the male guests to the runway show two days before, on the grounds of “the tremendous amount of RSVPs from young, fashionable ladies (potential Lewis Albert clients),” but invited them to the open-bar reception.) The entire Bee, including the punch class, was invited. Whitman seated the guests herself, seating many of the club members in the front rows...
...Holmes just announce she’s having a baby with Tom Cruise? All right, maybe that last one doesn’t merit too much attention either—but anything would be better than listening to people repeat the same things about final clubs, year after year, punch season after punch season, ad infinitum. So from now on, when any new final club “news” arises, let’s just give it a quick nod and keep on stepping—at least until someone finds something new to say. Ashton R. Lattimore...
...It’s been said that the Isis is merely an exceptionally poor specimen of an elite, punch-based organization. We’ll never know, but let’s hope that scrawled in other, more prestigious clubs’ punch books is not more of the same mindless criteria, not a self-indictment like the Isis’ giddy prose has provided...