Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEXT ARE STUDY breaks. The first one is for David Letterman--a man with just the "Far Side" mentality the Allnightist possesses, or soon will. Later, when slap-happy turns into bitterness at the sleeping, a quick water-gun, water-balloon raid on Store 24 is in order. Nothing lightens the prospect of six more hours without sleep like the sight of a dripping wet roommate stumbling and screaming downstairs to the laundry room, arms full of soggy flannel...
...nearly had a heart attack." Later the OMB boss came to the gloomy conclusion that even the most severe cuts in nonmilitary spending would fall $44 billion short of balancing the budget by 1984 (the actual gap, of course, turned out to be vastly greater). His simple solution: slap a "magic asterisk" on the $44 billion figure and call it "future savings to be identified...
...other purpose was punishment, but this too has been eroded. Short terms in jail are a message to the convicted murderer that if he gets caught, society will only slap him on the wrist and let him back on the streets...
Yuppies beware! The pricey European food products favored by young urban professionals may soon become even dearer. President Reagan threatened last week to slap new quotas and tariffs on such imports as French white wine, Perrier water, Heineken beer, Guinness stout, Swiss and blue cheese, and Belgian chocolates. The curbs will be phased in beginning May 1 unless the European Community rescinds restrictions imposed last month on $1 billion worth of imports of U.S. soybeans, corn and other agricultural products. Says Secretary of State George Shultz: "If we can't work something out, then we've got to fight...
...Alec was a participant in the great age of British theater, when it was populated by giants who held the stage without apparent effort. While Brando was sweating or mumbling to himself for two hours before each performance, Olivier could slap on a putty nose and blow the house away. The people Guinness describes are not quite larger than life but simply more grand than you and I are used to. John Gielgud really is as acerbic and sophisticated as he is on screen, and Ernie Kovacs was indeed the funniest person Guinness ever met. During the making...