Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like walking to the doorstep--heart pounding and skin tingling--on a first date, leaning over expectantly for that magic kiss, and receiving instead a hard, sudden slap to the face...
John Herzfeld's screenplay concerns Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean of Slap Shot), a Jewish delivery boy in Hoboken, N.J., and Rosemarie Lemon (Amy Irving of The Fury), a deaf teacher who wins the hero's heart. Drew wants to be a singer, Rosemarie wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco...
...decision is a slap in the face to Boston-area students and schools. Not only does it downgrade the importance of college runners, but it relegates college journalists to an undeserved second-class status...
...embarrassment of riches. According to projections by Wall Street's Paine Webber Inc., Ashland Oil, the nation's largest independent refiner, will see first-quarter profits leap by 517% over last year's earnings; one reason is the deals that the firm has been rushing to slap together during the crisis. Last week Ashland eagerly paid an exorbitant price, about $19.50 per bbl. for 300,000 tons of Iranian crude, even though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what to do with the shipment, though they hinted...
...that he could not "imagine a more appropriate day" for Mexico and the United States to meet, he could not have realized the irony of his comment. For as he extended his hand, the Commerce Department, unknown to the President, turned what was proferred as a handshake into a slap in the face--on the same day, the Commerce Department announced its unilateral decision to close a big export promotion center in Mexico, making a mockery of Carter's trip, which was supposed to open up lines of communication between the two nations on the very question of improving trade...