Word: wallop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happens that Larry Holmes is the undefeated heavyweight champion of the known (nonmovie) world, Gerry Cooney is the unbeaten No. 1 contender with an unknown wallop, and they are fighting each other this Friday night in a small ring out behind a large gambling lor for $20 million. Including ancillary payoffs, there may be as much as $50 million involved all around. The eyes of 32,000 people will glisten in the ring lights, and the blood of 2.5 million others will heat up in closed-circuit theaters, and much of the country, and some of the world, will...
...passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop to the modern sensibility. Were they subtle and sophisticated, we might not thrill...
...badly needed a vehicle to avoid dwelling on the depressing but pressing problems of budget deficits and unemployment and to regain domination of the political debate. The White House, therefore, beefed up the federalism idea to give the second-act curtain raiser of the Reagan presidency a show-stopping wallop. Says one adviser: "We thought of it as another go-for-broke idea, a big idea, another way in which Reagan could shape the national agenda...
Edwin Landseer, seen afresh, had wallop with the pathos
...Hamlyn and Joseph Rishel-soon makes clear that Landseer was more than a "mere" sentimentalist. To see him after such long disfavor is to see him afresh, and his affinities with other artists now seem more striking than his provincialism. Some of his hunt scenes have a positively Rubenesque wallop and energy, and his feeling for "sublime" landscape-the misty crags and glens of the Highlands-connects him to northern European romanticism, in particular to Caspar David Friedrich. When he let his sense of nature as a ground of elemental conflict speak directly, uninflected by sentiment, he produced...