Nothing. Four straight shutouts, and a series of increasingly dominant performances, highlighted by consecutive 3-0 thumpings of Cameroon and Norway in the knockout stages.
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On the eve of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, after three thorough thumpings and a fluke-y blowout win at home, that nonsensicality looked malignant, and terminal.
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And though his welterweight thumpings of Nate Marquardt and Jake Shields—the aforementioned brilliant moments— gave the impression that a welterweight drop was just what the doctor ordered, Lombard's career then took another ugly turn.
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But since those wobbles, the team has been building momentum: It won a 5-3 shootout when Australia tried to trade punches, and delivered thumpings to South Africa and New Zealand when both tried to bunker in defensively.
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Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, wrote that "This big, brassy Technicolored picture ... is, in substance, a rambling review of the musical triumphs of the famous bandmaster, whom Clifton Webb regally plays. And as such, it is much more rewarding in its thumpings and boomings of a rousing band than it is in its illuminations of personalities or plot". At the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 273 users liked the film, giving it an average rating of 3.7/5.
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At the time of release, Deuce was not a huge success. Rolling Stone damned it with faint praise such as: "All of which is not to say that it isn't a good album. If it isn't a world beater, it isn't all that bad either" and described the supporting musicians as "the highly pedestrian, almost pedantic bass and drum thumpings of two hacks named McAvoy and Campbell". However, over the years the album has remained popular with Gallagher's fans which include many legendary guitarists.
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The Scarecrow is an ancient, powerful alien monstrosity created for a long-ago war between the (then) technologically advanced Tarkon and a now-forgotten enemy. Even though the war is thousands of years over, he still is primarily motivated to destroy the living, ancient machine. Upon defeat, it was forced into hibernation for uncounted millennia under the surface of the planet Granna (he mentions the figure "a hundred million years" but this could be an exaggeration). The entity was disturbed; forcibly awakened by a Kiwi agricultural analysis device whose rumbling thumpings stirred the creature back into consciousness.
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The multiple thumpings Claude endures over the course of the night eventually elicit the cat's surrender, when he realizes Marc Antony will keep attacking him until he tells the truth. Marc Antony forces Claude to confess to his crimes and is let back into the house and back to the side of his beloved Pussyfoot. A dazed Claude gives Filbert his signed confession, then retrieves Pussyfoot from the vase and places her back in her bed as Marc Antony watches carefully, ready to pummel Claude again if he tries anything to frame him or hurt Pussyfoot once more. Filbert consequently kicks Claude out of the house as punishment for framing Marc Antony and tricking him, landing him in the street, and is promptly run over by a streetcar.
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