Word: plexus
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...irony, and he handles Rocky III as he has handled all of his writing and directing efforts, with heart-in-the-right-place primitivism. That is not necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone is unabashedly faithful to his character and his friends. The old gang is reassembled. Talia Shire is freshly steadfast and inspirational as Rocky's wife Adrian, Burgess Meredith is back as the wizened trainer Mickey and Burt Young as the earthy brother-in-law Paulie. Carl Weathers reprises his wily Apollo...
...along with his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. "I'm satisfied. Who else at my age can say he is satisfied?" Dubuffet chirruped. Moreover, he likes Manhattan, especially Wall Street, where one of his sculptures has been installed. Said he, relaxed as could be: "It is the solar plexus of the world. It is the heart where the blood comes from. There is a high madness, a delirium because of the tension...
Ethnically, the Continent is a plexus of unassimilated minorities. Western Europe alone embraces 30 different ethnic communities, ranging in size from the 20,000 Slovenes of Austria to the 4,000,000 Catalans of northeastern Spain. They are re-emerging partly because of what the Italians call disten-sione-the easing of tension-removing the kind of external dangers that justify strong central government. Another factor is the advance of modern communications, which has brought the threat of cultural homogenization much closer to many once isolated peoples. The result is that such communities have renewed their insistence on maintaining their...
...legs slash through the air in roundhouse kicks (pontapes) or straight jabs (pisadas). Tripping is a favorite tactic; so is the flying dropkick (voo de morsego) that norteamericano wrestlers love. Cartwheels are often used. One of the deadliest blows is the cabecada, a flying head butt to the solar plexus that, if properly delivered, can be fatal...
...want to stand up and start shouting yes you're right, that's the way it is. William Sonzski's Punch Goes the Judy is that kind of book. I made it through the jacket hype, to find a novel that hit me like a punch to the solar plexus; a novel that made me laugh a lot and cry a little and most importantly, stop and think about just what it is that my life and my own personal battle is all about...