A swift jab in the privates from Cloughie, almost certainly.
Guggenheim, narrating, then aims a swift jab at the movie's likely audience of upper-middle-class Americans.
In Margaret Atwood's classic, cheeky short story "Happy Endings" she takes a swift jab at the tropes we rely on when we tell stories -- love stories in particular.
Along the way, writer Jed Mercurio landed a few swift jabs at both Operation Yewtree ("how much money are we going to spend chasing clapped out DJs?") and celebrity culture ("we all know showbiz people have very low morals") and even audaciously evoked that infamous modern-day monster Jimmy Savile in a scene that was queasy but, I would argue, essential to the way this drama presents itself.
Its opening act is staggering in its inelegance, but the film keeps pounding through the predictable set-up and storyline until finally, when you think it can fight no longer and will have to throw in the towel, it charges back with some scenes of originality, pathos and, in ever-so-swift jabs, excitement.
Edward Hall's eye-popping staging of this early Shakespeare comedy works its way through a wide vocabulary of martial arts moves — boxing jabs, swift kicks to the rear, karate chops, wrestling locks — and weapons that include nightsticks, nunchaku sticks, whips, dinner plates and cans of mace.
Minaj, apparently unfazed by the column inches mounting, later contradicted headlines stating that she had taken "a jab" at Swift: "Nothing I said had to do with Taylor.
Fey and Poehler first jabbed at Swift back in 2013 while hosting the Golden Globes, commenting on the number of boyfriends the singer has had in the past, warning her to stay away from Michael J. Fox's son.
Much of the site's current editorial palette already fits into this scheme Andy Cush's reporting on the Oath Keepers in Ferguson, Keenan Trotter's revelations about Bill O'Reilly's domestic violence, and Allie Jones' swift and sophisticated political jabs.
Opposition leaders, who on Thursday had called for Mr. Lieberman's resignation, were swift to embrace it on Friday, but not without adding jabs.
