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...demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their limbs and faculties intact. Both of 'em can talk and kiss and land a punch, am I right? Let's not split hairs!" And, he pointed out, the movie was two hours long and in surround sound and Technicolor, hallmarks of a Tom Cruise feature. "It's unfair," he summarized, "but come on, pal, it isn't dangerous...
...illustrated by graphic novelist Kyle Baker. The comixcenti may sniff at its simple layout, but neophytes will appreciate its readability. And though it lacks the racial zings of, say, Dave Chappelle, it manages to land some clever social jabs. Hollywood is unlikely to have told this tale with more punch--if it told...
...side of the family: Colton Anderson, 8, and his friend Arden Richelle, 9. At our local restaurant, the Odeon - three stars in the 1986 Britchky guide - Colton had a bowl of asparagus soup with snails, and instantly endeared himself to me by laughing at a very old joke. (Punch line: ?Look at that ?S? car go!?) Then their mother and Aunt Donna took them to their first Broadway show, ?Beauty and the Beast.? They loved it! The kids now have the CD, for immediate memorizing. We expect a return visit, when two other precocious kids can put the New York...
Even as Edwards lost one primary after another last winter, his charm on the stump wowed the Washington political establishment--some of whom predicted Kerry would never pick a running mate who was so certain to upstage him. And Edwards already is, managing to put more punch into a single sentence than Kerry can in an entire paragraph. Kerry has a tendency to describe the contrast between Bush's foreign policy and his own with a thicket of civics-book phrases like unilateral, multilateralism, community of nations and America's relationship with the world. But at the Democrats' first rally...
...polemics often come with punch lines. On hearing that many members of Congress did not read the Patriot Act before voting for it, he rents an ice cream truck and drives around the Capitol reading the act over a loudspeaker...