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In Iowa, DeSantis Signals the Start of a Slugfest With Trump

After absorbing months of attacks from former President Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is beginning to fire back — but carefully.

The lack of a handshake was far from the way in which the Cleveland debate broke the normal conventions of civility.

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'Will you shut up, man?' 5 takeaways from the slugfest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Cleveland
At Tuesday's debate, Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted Joe

Louis Theroux is returning to BBC Two for three new hard-hitting documentaries

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"Happiness is a hard master–particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth."
--The Controller from BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

“In this country we think of Holland as a very advanced nation, with advanced social principles.” Yet tomorrow, on the Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, many will fail to see a problem with dressing up like thishttp://econ.st/1I4oluG

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Who, us? Racist? THE Dutch festival of Sinterklaas on December 5th, the country’s most important children’s holiday, is turning into an annual slugfest of racial...

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The Slugfest in the Executive Suite

By AMY CHOZICK

The popularity, and value, of mixed martial arts on television has left two media giants in a battle over the future of the sport.

Barney Rosset, 1922-2012

Defied Censors, Making Racy a Literary Staple

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Barney Rosset, who helped change the course of publishing in the United States, bringing masters like Samuel Beckett to Americans' attention, and who won celebrated First Amendment slugfests against censorship, died on Tuesday.

Chekhov's Slugfest, With Pratfalls

By BEN BRANTLEY

Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving star in the Sydney Theater Company revival of "Uncle Vanya" at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Literary Slug Fests (August 17, 1937)
A jocular Times Editorial suggested that a Hemingway-Eastman rematch "really ought to be staged in Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Nobel Peace Fund or something."

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When CBS's 60 Minutes first aired in 1968, no one expected it to become one of network television's most popular programs ever. Yet 60 Minutes became the role model that all other investigative television programs have sought to emulate, and its clicking stopwatch became one of TV's most recognized images. In the beginning, there were two reporters: Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace. Others, including Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and Lesley Stahl, helped to make 60 Minutes the most-watched newsmagazine in TV history. Wallace, famous for his aggressive, hard-hitting interviews — and still an occasional contributor to the show — turns 90 today.

The seemingly inevitable prospect of Donald J. Trump becoming the Republican candidate is terrifying. But it does at least offer the prospect of some angry, hard-hitting art.

Warhol demonised Nixon. Heartfield took on Hitler. Where is Trump's artistic mauling?

The best political art is always viciously negative. And the monsterly…

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Reith lectures As early as 1980, he delivered a series of Reith lectures, broadcast on the BBC, which contained trenchant criticism of way that doctors regulate themselves.

on Page 16: "Paul Ricoeur so trenchantly puts it, Freud adhered at times to a nineteenth-century physicalist model that frowned on intentional-state explanations.23 So it is part of our heritage ... "


Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack 
By JIM RUTENBERGBarack Obama has started a hard-hitting ad campaign against John McCain in vital states, painting Mr. McCain as disconnected from middle-class struggles.




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One Comic, Twice the Laughs
Two comic personalities seemed to coexist within George Carlin during his preposterously long and fertile career. Both Carlins could amuse and both could be trenchant, but each came at his target from wildly different angles.
(By Paul Farhi, The Washington Post)


hard
Not showing sympathy or affection; strict:he can be such a hard taskmaster

trench・ant

  
━━ a. 刺すような, 痛烈な ((ことば，批評など)); はっきりした (in ～ outline くっきりと）.

WordNet: preposterous

The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense
Synonyms: absurd, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous

hard-hitting

(hārd'hĭt'ĭng)

adj.
Effective; forceful.

slugfest - a fight with bare fists 

slug-fest
noun, US

A hard-hitting contest, esp. in boxing or baseball. (1916 —) .

WordNet: hard-hitting

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: characterized by or full of force and vigor
Synonym: trenchant
Meaning #2: aggressively and persistently persuasive
Synonym: high-pressure

adjective

1. uncompromisingly direct and honest, especially in revealing unpalatable facts.

   "a hard-hitting anti-fox-hunting poster"

hard-hit·ting (hrdhtng)

adj.

Effective; forceful.

adj

uncompromising; tough
a hard-hitting report on urban deprivation

trenchant
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
severe, expressing strong criticism or forceful opinions:
His most trenchant criticism is reserved for the party leader, whom he describes as 'the most incompetent and ineffectual the party has known.'
Dorothy Parker's writing is characterized by a trenchant wit and sophistication.

Arizona Daily Star Powers gave up four runs on seven hits, a contrast from the 33-hit slugfest of Friday night (1979).

slugfest

noun

INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN

1. a tough and challenging contest, especially in sports such as boxing and baseball.

   "the fight brought back memories of the classic 1976 Lyle-Foreman slugfest"

slug-fest
[From slug verb, to hit + fest noun, special occasion, festival.]

[slʌ'gfèst] [名]((主に米略式))（ボクシングの）激しい打ち合い, 好ファイト, （野球の）打撃戦, 乱打戦.

The noun rematch has one meaning:
Meaning #1: something (especially a game) that is played again
Synonym: replay

jocular
(jŏk'yə-lər)
adj.

1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.

[Latin ioculāris, droll, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke.]

jocularity joc'u·lar'i·ty (-lăr'ĭ-tē) n.
jocularly joc'u·lar·ly adv.

[形]((形式))こっけいな, ひょうきんな, 浮かれた, ユーモラスな

a jocular fellow
おもしろいやつ.

［ラテン語joculār （jocus冗談＋-ulus指小辞＋-AR＝小さな冗談の）. △JOKE］




pratfall(prăt'fôl')
n.

1. A fall on the buttocks.
2. A humiliating error, failure, or defeat: "His characters not only survive their snarled problems and pratfalls but learn from their experiences" (Joyce Carol Oates).