Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same slap in the face that the Harvard men's hockey team endured four seasons ago. The Crimson won the ECAC regular-season championship, but the NCAA hockey committee left it out of The Dance. And you know what, the icemen went on to win the ECAC the next two years and make those two national tournaments...
...bill that maintains stiffer penalties for crack cocaine than for the powdered form of the drug. Since studies have found that Black Americans are more frequent users of crack than white Americans, who more often use powdered cocaine, some view the penalty difference as unfair. "This is a slap in the face for black people, and I don't understand why he did it," says TIME's Sylvester Monroe. "He could have avoided criticism by equalizing the punishments, but instead it looks like he supports the bias against blacks. This is especially surprising because he has had a good record...
...published volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966), onward, he has produced intense, lyrical works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...
...fact that Packwood was allowed to resign and keep his $88,922 pension, rather than be expelled from the Senate, is insane. In most business environments, the offender would be fired without pension or severance, and possibly face criminal charges. For Packwood, his so-called punishment is merely a slap on the wrist; for the women he harassed, and other victims of sexual harassment, it is a slap in the face. DOROTHY BELLONI West Springfield, New Hampshire Via E-mail...
...rest of the main characters are even more dry and lifeless than Allen. The desire to slap Helena Bonham Carter out of her self-pity is overwhelming, and only increases as the movie progresses. And Michael Rapaport, while likable at first as the "dumb-blond" boxer Allen tries to fix Linda up with, winds up sounding plastic and rehearsed, without a shred of believable character in him. By the trite end, it is clear that you are supposed to be happy for them. But you can't be happy for people you never liked-or even got to know...