Word: slaps
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...often contrived angles or other devices go too far: yes, subtitles in a night club are cute, but, no, freeze-framing things to let the narrator slap on unnecessary description...
...timing of a perfect slap shot. With his Florida Panthers facing off against the Colorado Avalanche for the Stanley Cup, owner Wayne Huizenga unveiled plans last week to sell 50% of his three-year-old team to the public. The offering would make the Panthers only the second U.S. sports team to sell stock as well as seats. Basketball's Boston Celtics went public in 1986, when they were still top contenders. But since then the stock has produced a cellar-dwelling annual return of less than...
...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...
...wrapping yourselves in the Bible?" To Michael Dukakis, who persisted in giving bland responses during an interview meant to resurrect his failing presidential campaign, Koppel blurted: "With all due respect, let me suggest to you, I still don't think you get it." ("I was inviting the candidate to slap me down," he recalls. "And I couldn't imagine why he didn't.") And this was his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador Hamdoon, I know that you have had another career before you became a diplomat, so perhaps you will take some pity...
...been badgered into taking a speaking role. Dressed and drawling like a cowboy, he walked on stage in his characteristically shy way, and delivered his lines blushing on center stage. A double-bass was put into his hands, and as the orchestra started up and John played the number "Slap That Bass," his shyness fell away--he closed his eyes and his wrists snapped the strings, to a roar of applause and laughter from his friends in the audience...