Word: slaps
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...Their slap-and-stroke routine extends to Oval Office meetings, where Bush is unfailingly gracious, whether with earnest junior staffers or craven special pleaders. It is Sununu's role to wring useful information out of unctuous presentations and rebut one-sided arguments, and he delights in it. Bush clearly relishes the edge and the rigor that Sununu provides. "He has made a lot of friends for our Administration," Bush says, "on the basis of competence, sheer competence...
...rise. A Trinity University fraternity in San Antonio was placed on probation after requiring a Jewish pledge to dress in a Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University of Southern California, "because, unfortunately, sexism is still an accepted form of bigotry...
...nice old woman then told me that she had never even learned where the birthplace of her husband--Omaha, Nebraska--could be found on the map. I smiled, chewed on a piece of matzoh and waited for the next evidence of Eastern-centrism to slap me in the face...
Throughout much of the performance, the word comedy seems to be a misnomer, though the acting is sometimes laughable enough. The humor admittedly does pick up in the latter acts, but the cast relies more on slap-stick than witty delivery of their lines...
Modesto, Calif., inspiration for hometown boy George Lucas' film American Graffiti, is putting the brakes on the weekend rite of cruising. Last week the city council voted to slap fines of $75 to $250 on teenage cruisers when traffic on the main drag, McHenry Avenue, goes into gridlock...