Word: punched
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...Dependence, citing recent Dewar's Scotch and Southern Comfort campaigns in such youth-culture bibles as Details and Rolling Stone. Shapiro says Seagram has taken "great pains that our advertising doesn't appeal to or aim at children," an iffy claim during a campaign that uses "Valedictorian" as a punch line. Why violate the ad ban? Market share. Hard liquor is slipping, and TV is where tomorrow's customers...
...sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around the water cooler for weeks (not to mention the fact that it was the conceit of a humor column in the New Yorker almost a month ago). And what might the punch line be of a joke that begins, "Archaeologists in Los Angeles are excavating a red-light district to see how prostitutes lived at the turn of the century"? You guessed it: "Charlie Sheen...
...becoming ruinously expensive. So Congress started a second student-loan program, in which the recipients pay interest even during their school years. This program, rolled out in 1992, now has 2 million borrowers and a loan volume of $7.6 billion. The effect has been that of a one-two punch: as tuitions and fees have risen, so has the cost to the borrower of a student loan. Loan interest adds a few hundred dollars a year to the cost of a college education...
Seal's show was not only a high point in his career and for Unplugged, it was also a noteworthy moment for today's pop. The sound of folk is making a comeback, from the resurgent Tracy Chapman's unexpected Top 10 CD, New Beginning, to the folk-punk punch of Ani DiFranco. In his Unplugged set, the musically eclectic Seal (according to him, his favorite albums right now include Stereolab's involving art-pop CD, Emperor Tomato Ketchup; D*Note's politically aware dance album, Criminal Justice; and Henryk Gorecki's avant-garde classical CD, Symphony No. 3) managed...
...most noticeable effect of the battered blue line was surprisingly not seen on the defensive end of the ice. Anchored by co-captain Holly Leitzes, the Harvard defensive core (that is to say three defensemen) battled admirably, but at the expense of the offensive punch of the team...