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...Just ask NBC's Tom Brokaw ("Duncan the Wonderhorse") or the people at ABC News ("Rooney Tunes"). Says ABC News President Roone Arledge: "He loves to make catchy little phrases that are belittling." Adds CBS News President Bill Leonard: "He uses the English language like a sword to punch holes in whatever he feels like punching holes...
...stage. In brushing away the encrustations of age and restoring the original to us. Epstein and Leib have unearthed no new themes; they have instead uncovered a wealth of satiric ornamentation, the angry undergrowth of the author's mind, that either was cut for the opera or lost its punch in Italian...
...tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original way of derailing conventional narratives with a compact, satiric prose and ripe perceptions. "I feel you're feeling anger," says the host to his enraged wife. It is one of Michaels' many punch lines in this small marvel of modern comic irony...
...characters tend to get lost in the shuffle. Why Sellon then insists in the second act that each couple have a denouement duet is incomprehensible unless it was just for the sake of tying up the many loose ends. By doing so he simply deprives the show of its punch and brevity...
...announcing a White House plan to ease air-quality and safety regulations on automobiles (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Bush is no match for his boss as a political salesman. Said one uncharitable White House aide: "I forgot how miserable Bush is on television. He's got all the punch of Jerry Ford...