Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford. The Secretary had instructions for the President on how to talk and act. At the ramp in Vladivostok when the new President met the Russians it was like a movie scene. They were all there in their fur hats, shaking hands and slap ping backs and grinning as if it were a class reunion. And it was, in a way. These were Henry Kissinger's boys, drawn together in part by his wit and wisdom...
...White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Ike's Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, offered what the AT&T man described as a "friendly tip" on how to negotiate a settlement. Soon after, the Government approved a consent decree that allowed Bell to keep Western Electric in return for a wrist-slap promise not to let it compete for business outside...
...minute mark Yale sophomore center halfback Anne Keating spoiled Barbie Matson's shutout with a clean slap, knotting the score...
...negotiating with the P.L.O. is not the real issue. The basic problem, underlying everything, is that the Arabs in general have refused to accept the proposition of a Jewish state in the Middle East. The Rabat decision to call the P.L.O. the legitimate Palestinian representatives was just another slap in the face...
Essentially, the problem is the choreography. It is almost as much mime as ballet. The story is a complicated slap stick tale about a flirtatious town clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs...