Word: punching
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...major transport hubs. Glasgow's airport reopened Sunday, a day after the burning Jeep Cherokee plowed into the terminal building at the hub serving Scotland's largest city. One of the Jeep's two occupants erupted from the vehicle, in flames and bellowing, to be felled by punch from a tourist who later told a British newspaper, "He was a big fellow and was disorientated, otherwise I would not have been able to knock him down...
...inept, almost comically so, the incompetent work of slapstick terrorists. Yesterday afternoon a burning Jeep Cherokee plowed into the terminal building at the airport serving Scotland?s largest city, Glasgow. One of the jeep's two occupants erupted from the vehicle, in flames and bellowing, to be felled by punch from a tourist who later told a British newspaper "He was a big fellow and was disorientated, otherwise I would not have been able to knock him down...
...This may in part because it was Michael Cunningham, author of the book The Hours, another stupefying exercise in unspoken angst, who was hired to punch up the script Susan Minot was trying to make out of her novel. They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with...
...what people seek from him isn't individual reviews but lessons in how to enjoy wine. "There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the Wine Spectator, who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face," he says. "I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't élitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together...
...lament living in a time when Isaiah Washington is fired for calling a gay Grey's Anatomy co-star a "faggot." "I hate to think we live in a time when you can get fired from your job because of what you say," he says. "He didn't punch anyone. I think we'll think differently with hindsight." Clearly, not all his notions are liberal...