Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fassbinder, whose first big-budget film and first film in English this is, gives an appropriate quality of ponderous slap stick to the first half of the movie. There is a lot of blubbery smooching between Hermann's wife and her lascivious cousin, a bulky red-bearded artist (Volker Spengler). Hermann ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem...
Last year, the administrators and Faculty members of CHUL gave the caucus an embarrassing and painful slap in the face when they overrode a caucus-sponsored resolution supporting the efforts of the Constitutional Convention. Essentially, the administrators and faculty members objected to the resolution's claim that CHUL is a committee supposed to work mainly for students...
...real fans" of Harvard hockey were at the UNH game mentioned in the article. They also saw Dave Bell take a goalie's glove off with a blazing slap shot in 1976, and sat by as Harvard beat Yale in the final game of the 1976-77 season, but failed to reach the ECAC playoffs, lacking the help of any one of three other teams. The "real fans" remember Gene Purdy's overtime wraparound goal to win last year's first-round Beanpot match against Northeastern as well as they recall Jackie Hughes limping off the ice at Boston College...
...didn't plan to tie like that before the race," Fitzsimmons said. "It would be dangerous to work it out beforehand, but I had thought about it. We didn't do it to slap Brown in the face--just...
Certainly, you can't help but be enthusiastic about the way the Harvard defense rose above all question marks--and a few offensive linemen--Saturday afternoon to slap a 10-0 shutout on a talented UMass squad...