Word: punched
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...opinions, though some subjects set him off. He thinks, for example, that the antismoking campaign has gone too far. "Here in New York City, they're getting very huffy about secondhand smoke," he says. "I'm a little more worried about secondhand bullets." More typically, he serves up deflating punch lines that provide commentary only obliquely. On gangster rappers toting guns: "It's nice to see for once a celebrity actually using the product they endorse." On '70s chic: "Will Americans get nostalgic for anything, or is there something redeeming about Barry White that we missed the first time...
...White House's offerings this month have been every bit as attention- getting, beginning with a shocking one-two punch: the down-to-the-wire vote in the House on the assault-weapons ban that came on the very same day -- No way! shouted millions of electrified C-SPAN viewers -- that Paula Jones' lawyers were toying with the question of whether or not to file a sexual- harassment suit against the President. The latter story line was echoed in the recent two-hour season finale of Melrose Place, a currently hot nighttime soap that was floundering until old pro Heather...
...hold on. Suddenly the doorbell rings, or you want to go to the bathroom. What now? Unfortunately, Stargazer's pause button is still under construction. To stop a movie in midscene, you have to pick up a telephone handset, dial into the Stargazer control center, punch in a series of codes, and wait as long as half a minute for the order to be processed...
Loyola does not boast of the same one-two punch that Dartmouth does, but nevertheless its offense can be potent, as it did score 11 times against the Crimson in their one meeting...
...twig in his second comeback start. A videotape of that last game had most of the crowd crying, then cheering the big and earnest one-armed man onstage. "When You Can't Come Back" was his title, and he talked about God and Jesus, telling some awkward jokes with punch lines like, "She is the wind beneath my wing . . . singular, not plural, get it?" Another video introduced Mary Lou Retton, reminding the crowd of the spunky kid from West Virginia who in 1984 became, against all odds, the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics...