Word: slappingly
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...Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux and the Queen of Scots in Maria Stuarda, Sills proves again that she is a singing actress without peer. Stage Director Tito Capobianco gives her full rein: she even takes final leave of her lord and mate Henry VIII by giving him a stinging slap in the face that is a triumph of histrionics over history...
...Dillinger's private life. We see strategy meetings to plan robberies and even a fight between the compulsively violent Baby Face Nelson and the more even-tempered Dillinger, but we don't find out how he lives or even where he lives. Once in a while, he'll slap his girl Billie around but this doesn't seem to fit in with Dillinger's character, and because Billie takes it so obligingly we are not moved. Billie is a vacuous sex-object. Without literal or figurative dimensions, she is unlike the tough-bitch gun molls...
...nothing substantial. Angered at having one of its pet premises pulled out from under it, the White House apparently refused to accept the CIA's conclusion. Soon after, it ordered the FBI to set up overseas intelligence outposts in 20 countries-a wasteful overlap of functions and a slap in the face...
...immediate monetary gain. Libya has amassed some $3 billion in foreign reserves from oil sales-four times what it spends on imports in a year -and new revenue is coming in about twice as fast as the government can disburse it. Rather, the move may be a direct slap at the U.S.; Gaddafi has grown increasingly bitter against the Nixon Administration for its support of Israel...
...price. The entire scheme will be administered by the Interior Department's Office of Oil and Gas. Compliance will be voluntary -much like Phase III wage and price controls-but if the Office of Oil and Gas receives a complaint about a recalcitrant oil supplier, its enforcers can slap a mandatory allocation scheme on the offender. If all goes well, many of the 562 filling stations that have shut down completely could open within a month...