Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal eight-day visit to China, the Soviet Union's main ideological adversary. Berlinguer's colleagues insisted that his trip was merely an attempt to resume normal relations with the Chinese party, which were cut off in 1962. Nonetheless, the visit was not only a slap at the Kremlin but also a vivid demonstration of the deep schism that has been widening down the middle of the movement once called Eurocommunism...
...Slap and Tickle...
Harvard's big bats had another sleepy afternoon, mostly because they couldn't find pitches to hit. Eddie Farrell clouted a long home run in the ninth, knocking in Mark Bingham who had slammed a ground-rule double moments before, but otherwise the Crimson could only slap six singles off errant moundsmen Carl Nowiszcwski, Mark Dewitt and Al Fordiari...
Foremost among these is Epstein's appropriation of Henry Purcell's score for The Fairy Queen, with chorus, soloists and instruments of the Banchetto Musicale, as a means both to lengthen and to enrich Shakespeare's play. The backhanded slap at Mendelssohn's romantic score, with its pianissimo fairies and ebullient wedding march, makes clear even before the lights go up the director's vision of A Midsummer Night's Dream: counterpoint over harmony. If the music doesn't bring that message home, Epstein has added a brief masque to accompany the overture: before a Paolo Uccello-like tapestry...
...Japanese placed Lysol-soaked cloths in boxes outside the huts and announced that any prisoners who failed to wipe their feet on the cloth would be beaten. Wrote Crouter: "I am rather confused over Japanese politeness and tea ceremony in comparison with the Sergeant offering to slap any woman who wouldn't dip her feet into the door box. Like us, their nature is capable of contradictions, but they could cut down on the bows when they are in the slapping phase...