Word: slap
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...made that trip to Congress in a campaign to slap a tax on blank video tapes, arguing that a home viewer's ability to tape movies shown on TV would bankrupt the studios. "We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage unless this Congress at least protects one industry ... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public," he fulminated, "as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone...
...sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million a year the U.S. insurance behemoth agreed to pay to slap its logo on the club jersey for four years - more than 50% higher than the amount previously paid to sponsor the club by cell-phone operator Vodafone. When one shareholder wondered why AIG would spend so much on the U.K., a relatively modest part of its empire, ceo Martin Sullivan...
...Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...
...engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck, a coffee in the wrong café could spell death by suicide bomber...
...literary model, Keret explains from his home in Tel Aviv, it is Franz Kafka. "Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader," he says. "A short story in this style is like a slap in the face." If Kafka offers a slap, Keret's stories are more like a rifle-butt blow to the jaw. In one tale, the protagonist spots a woman walking down the street and sees, a second later, "the tip of a knife sticking out of the front of her neck...