Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...timing of a perfect slap shot. With his Florida Panthers facing off against the Colorado Avalanche for the Stanley Cup, owner Wayne Huizenga unveiled plans last week to sell 50% of his three-year-old team to the public. The offering would make the Panthers only the second U.S. sports team to sell stock as well as seats. Basketball's Boston Celtics went public in 1986, when they were still top contenders. But since then the stock has produced a cellar-dwelling annual return of less than...
...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...
...been badgered into taking a speaking role. Dressed and drawling like a cowboy, he walked on stage in his characteristically shy way, and delivered his lines blushing on center stage. A double-bass was put into his hands, and as the orchestra started up and John played the number "Slap That Bass," his shyness fell away--he closed his eyes and his wrists snapped the strings, to a roar of applause and laughter from his friends in the audience...
...pledge to crack down on the piracy of American computer software, films, music and other intellectual property. Rightful owners of the copyrights claim they are losing an estimated $2 billion a year. The U.S. has warned that if the Chinese government does not close the pirate factories, Washington will slap an extra $2 billion tariff on imported Chinese goods. Beijing is threatening to retaliate in kind, and there is worried talk about a trade war, though veterans of these negotiations predict a settlement before the deadline of June 17. Some high-profile Chinese government raids on the pirate plants...
...what hoofing! The dancers, all men, cross and recross the stage with demon drive. The sounds vary as strains of jazz, blues, hip-hop and gospel interweave. This is a very raucous show, about as far removed from the classic buck-and-wing as tap can get. The performers slap down the beat hard, and if that doesn't rattle the eardrums, they are miked at the ankle. It doesn't make for subtlety, but for visceral excitement...