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Word: slappingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, the implication that the dinner was purposefully scheduled to coincide with World AIDS Day is at once silly and offensive. As has been repeatedly stated (in The Crimson's own article covering the dinner, no less) the coincidence was just that--a coincidence, not an intentional slap in the face to the gay community, or for that matter to anyone concerned with or suffering from the disease. Like most Harvard students, we plead ignorance to knowing the date of World AIDS Day. And what is The Crimson implying, anyway--that conservatives favor the spread of AIDS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...really a slap-in-the-face," one officer said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Confirm Stuckey Is Prime Matthews Suspect | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

When it comes to Norman Rockwell, we all know what we're supposed to think. Rockwell is to modern art what Robert Mapplethorpe is to family values--a slap in the face to all serious standards. So much the worse that for decades he was the best-loved American artist, at least until he was usurped by an even shrewder judge of the national disposition, Andy Warhol. To the art world Rockwell was an exasperating holdout, the man who didn't care that in the 20th century it was simply uncalled for to paint sweet-tempered vignettes in a representational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Innocent Abroad | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...mean, Richard's role is kind of like a producer. We both produce and write, but I'm actually the hands-on guy; Richard doesn't really touch the gear. Well, he does, but when he does, we slap his hand. [Laughs...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "It's Just Trance Music, Really" | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...talented" and worthy of his respect. Forget about judging or self-segregating based on ethnicity--we at Harvard are too righteous and politically correct. We only self-segregate based on skill. We are trapped in the middle-school mentality that only the people who have crimped hair and slap bracelets are worthy of playing seven minutes in heaven...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Unreading Period | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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