Word: punching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...muted version of Rogen's shtick. "We said, 'The dude gets married? That's kind of lame,'" says writing partner Goldberg. "We write stuff where the universe ends and Martians land." But Rogen says he has learned from Apatow to focus on story and emotional honesty over aliens and punch lines. "Apatow kept saying, 'Less semen. More emotion,'" says Rogen...
...Chirac's foreign policy reflected a world-view "that stresses multilateralism, and supports cultural diversity as a manner of both enhancing peace and resolving conflict." And it is this combination of advancing French national interests while going to bat for smaller allies that often allowed France to punch beyond its diplomatic weight category. "In hindsight, I think we'll see Chirac viewed as the statesman who neglected the hard decisions at home in favor of projecting France and its interests around the world," Reyni? concludes...
...let’s take over University Hall. Again. May we have May ’68! What a great punch line for a free t-shirt...
...lips that uttered that sentence are capable of smiling, rather sweetly, and often part to emit bursts of spontaneous laughter. He tells jokes, though no one can quite remember the setups or the punch lines. He has two young sons (his daughter died 10 days after her birth in 2002) and a sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass...
...aspect of your faith that you never even think about and assume that it was the central element of the church," Romney says, noting that Mormon leaders past and present "said all sorts of things, but they're not church doctrine." Both Romney and wife Ann regularly make a punch line of the fact that he's the only leading Republican contender who is still on his first marriage. And for the record, Romney's great-grandfather, who had five wives, was the last polygamist in the family line...