Word: slap
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...done in the past. They also agreed to reimburse parties who the SEC claims had been defrauded or misled and relinquished oil and gas royalties that were deemed excessive. The cost will be about $800,000, an amount viewed by some experts on securities investigations as a mere slap on the wrist...
...electorate shied from proposals that would have added to their tax burden. They frequently turned back measures that would have handed more power to politicians. West Virginians, for example, refused a $750 million bond issue backed by Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller for state highway improvement, thus delivering a slap to Rockefeller's well-known presidential aspirations. In Kentucky, voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the state's one-term limit on state officeholders, including the governorship. Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, who has presidential hopes of his own, considered the vote a personal rebuke. Said...
...share of bad movies--usually with friends--which are ineffective because he isn't dominant and can't set the proper tone. Don't see The Fortune, a forced, slapsticking situational comedy with buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that Nicholson cannot direct Nicholson
...experimentation with one-man "music/theater" in "Comparable Jones"--an original, which deals with the personal battle against addictions of all kinds--signifies an attempt to wrestle with suffering in a more direct, less frivolous way. "One of the things I'd like to do with this new theater is slap people. Slap them hard. Because they've closed their eyes," he says. "That's the way people are. A lot of them close doors...
McGovern always wanted to seem like an outsider, a fresh face. But that was image-building: after all, George McGovern is very much a veteran politician. It is therefore a bit surprising that he doesn't greet you with standard politician's etiquette--no slap on the back, no patronizing compliment for your home state. He just shakes your hand firmly, his youngish face breaking into the familiar half-moon smile, and asks, with genuine interest, what's on your mind...