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...joke falls like a barbell and the only laughs come when you introduce the band. Other guys fight their way past flop sweat, or cool it out. For Rodney Dangerfield, cool is a dial on a Fedders. He sets fear on parade, and all its consequences are his best punch lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rodney Running Scared | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...hydrogen bomb, a fission reaction at the core triggers a fusion reaction,* which releases a rapid burst of neutrons. These neutrons have to penetrate an outer shield of uranium 238, which reduces their velocity, increases the bomb's explosive punch and releases harmful radioactivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How the Bomb Works | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know's." Their most famous routines include a dreamy song called 'Basketball Jones"; and a sequence whose ear-shattering punch line is delivered by a nun to her high school class: "SHUT...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should not be ignored: for He brought upon this production a plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging out to dry; Coco at work in the pharaoh's palace, trying to sweep up hundreds of frogs with a dustpan and broom), but nothing can redeem Wholly Moses! from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thou Shalt Not | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...brutal battle, head-to-head, toe-to-toe, a real slugfest, waiting for the knockout punch...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: On Sports and Politics | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

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