Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make sure this page gets filled with superlative prose and, quite frankly, nobody else would agree to slap together 30 column inches for today's issue. I was going to co-write this piece with Associate Editorial Chair Tara A. Nayak '92, who often makes snide, irritating comments about my social life even though SHE HAS NO SOCIAL LIFE OF HER OWN, but Tara was too busy. No hard feelings, of course...
...They Just Don't Get It, Slap 'Em: In the recent issue of Lighthouse, Yvette C. Alt '92 wrote an interesting article about the violent aspects of Thelma and Louise. Alt speculated that her strong distaste for the felonies perpetrated by the movie's protagonists had something to do with her own summer job at the Illinois Department of Criminal Justice...
...women who have struggled to erase their gender at the office door. "The minute I get in, I become one of the guys," says stand-up comic Reno, who works in comedy clubs. "I've got to take my breasts off and talk from the head up and slap everybody around. I become this desexualized creature so that we can all work together...
...landslide victory came as a slap in the face to certain sectors of Haitian society. The army was concerned, since Aristide had never made deals with the military in the tradition of most Haitian presidential candidates. The economic elite was worried because they had been telling each other for years that "that little priest" was a communist. The Roman Catholic Church was nervous because Aristide's relations with the Haitian hierarchy continued to be rocky...
Said Toomey, "it was a slap in the face to the seargents who had been there for many years...