Word: punched
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Even on the level of scale, Walker distorts the niceties of hand-held, 19th century bourgeois silhouettes. The near full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
...good short story writer could probably think of an ending to this anecdote. What would happen when he finally watched the film, as an old man, when the final frame flickered and then disappeared on the screen? Personally, I can't think of a punch-line for his story, any more than I can think of a punch-line for a life...
...Crimson, visibly shaken after the intermission, quickly dropped the first five service points from Chiefs senior setter Bret Stothart, even letting Stothart punch a bad pass into a defensive hole in the Harvard mid-court...
Last week in Lewiston, Me., Cassius Marcellus Clay, 23, fought a fight that did not seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...
...that you're not the impulsive type. Say you're the type to leave, stew, and come back 20 minutes later to choke and punch somebody. Hey, this arbitrator isn't unreasonable--that...