Word: punched
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...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
...Basement packs a powerful psychological punch. For this reason, it is best not to go alone. Bring a close friend, a significant other, or, if at all possible, your mom. Your mom will love you no matter what dark sides of your personality surface during your expedition. Your mom will recount tales of past triumphs (a pep talk is necessary before entering the arena, especially on crowded days). You mom may have tales of The Basement from a more innocent time. My own mother has a friend who ripped her wedding dress out of another women's arms...
...every fight has to be won with a knockout punch. We're confident that we can win any bout on points alone...
Novelist Nicholson Baker narrowly beat me to the punch with his 1991 account of his obsession with writer John Updike '54, U and I. It was the book which I had planned to write. Baker, an effective chronicler of life's minutiae, paid homage to the novelist whose rendering of America's interior life is yet unmatched...
Much better. The issue of the value of public education has been addressed, but why the insult. The argument speaks for itself; does it need to be preceded by a punch...