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Word: slapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's resumption of bombing raids well over the 20th parable? in North Vietnam strikes many students as aggressive, inhumane, hypocritical, and short sighted, But the deeper personal threat one can't conceal is that the raids are an arrogant slap in the face of the anti-war movement challenging it to react...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Breaking Away From Apathy: The First Step | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

...screenplay. It seems more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination. His visuals in riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films riverrun at the Orson Welles | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

...buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building sense of drama: the listener hears the slap of 39 lashes over a satiric rock beat, as well as the noise of nails being driven into the cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Passion | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...dollar or your watch or your sanity for Christ sake. You can't eat in a good restaurant, no decent-looking chick will talk to you. Man, you find yourself on even ground with all the other outsiders-winos, whores, queers, hustlers, all the waterfront freaks. What a fucking slap in the face to your manhood...

Author: By Tom Connor, | Title: Oh Hear Us When We Cry to Thee For Those in Peril on the Sea | 8/11/1970 | See Source »

Crooks gave the CRIMSON a $500 advantage in the bidding because of our past good performance. The Independent viewed that as an unfair slap at them, while the CRIMSON suspected that another paper was being considered at all only because of the Crimson's frequent opposition to University policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why This Paper Isn't Free: A Tale | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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