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Because Eleanor, in her own patrician way, had behind her the authority of what our grandparents called the School of Hard Knocks.
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.
If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail.
Answer: The kickboxer knocks him silly in 35 seconds.
Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.