Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Cleary's entire body turns red when his team wins. The top of his head glows like a radioactive eggshell, emitting happiness beams in all directions. Innocent backs must beware the jolt of a cheerful slap...
That admission has done little to soothe Stingley, who calls the book "a slap in everybody's face." Says he: "The bottom line is I feel sorry for the guy." Not so Stingley's attorney Jack Sands, who has asked Football Commissioner Pete Rozelle to ban Tatum from the game. Preoccupied with the Super Bowl, Rozelle has yet to take any action. He was, however, heard to mutter a few words about Tatum's cheek: "That's asking for it. Unbelievable." A number of players have joined the chorus. "Mean" Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...couse a large-scale boycott would hurt Soviet prestige, but there is not the least indication a slap in the face will deter future adventurism on the Soviet Union's part. Once a precedent is set, who will draw the line in the future as to the host nation's appropriateness? Further, moving the Olympics would force the Soviet Union to preserve its prestige by withdrawing from the Olympics. Thus, the result would be the same as a boycott--limited participation in an event whose purpose is to provide a worldwide forum for competition...
Naming Khomeini as Man of the Year is a slap in the face to every American citizen, the families of the hostages and the hostages themselves...
...Wagner's] Meistersinger, laughing at Beckmesser, who is a comic character. Or, another one from Samson and Delilah, the Bacchanale scene which ends in Samson's knocking down the pillars, is a drunken orgy. You're supposed to be doing whatever you want, so you wander around and slap people on the shoulders in no apparent order onstage. I was talking to people and revelling and having a good time...