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He has started punchily, but England are in a real state.

Crawford's account weighs in at half that, and is punchily definitive.

Anyway, the gamey history is punchily put together, with an abundance of newsreels and old movies to illustrate the anecdotes of former insiders or hangers-on.

As for Maastricht, Mr Major and Douglas Hurd, buoyed by their sense that the rebels are on the run, have begun to sound more punchily European.

If you care deeply about the answers to those questions, Mr. Kurtz's indefatigable, gossipy, punchily written examination of Wall Street and the press may well be the book for you.

"Return to Kansas City," punchily adapted and directed by Walter Bernstein, is based on Shaw's tightly wrought story of a boxer (Matt Dillon) who is under pressure from his wife (Kyra Sedgwick) to go for the big fight and the big money before he feels ready.