Word: slaps
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...what has been overpraised, to praise what has been overlooked, or to make some wry self-revelation. Sometimes he does all three at once, as in his discussion of W.H. Auden. He recalls finding the famous older writer "frightening" when he met him, but he does not hesitate to slap down Auden's post-1940 American output as "too verbose to be memorable and too intellectual to be moving," well below the energetic, socially committed English Auden...
...Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban L.A. life...
...part of history." Adds the Rev. Henry Ficklin, a black city councilman: "I think it would be a greater slap in the face to think that blacks were so ignorant they couldn't accept history...
...little trouble getting his meaning. The reference to "rules of international law" was implicit criticism of the CIA-organized mining of Nicaraguan harbors. "Nonintervention" and "self-determination" referred to U.S. support for the contra guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. "Peaceful solutions" was a slap at the U.S. military buildup in Central America. "Equality of states before the law" and "international cooperation" were allusions to the U.S. economic squeeze on Nicaragua...
...APPLAUSE following Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's final Faculty Meeting as Dean was still echoing in the halls of University Hall last week, when the sound of fresh clapping broke out-Rosovsky reaching over to give a mightly slap to Harvard's collective educational back. In his tenth and penultimate annual report released last week. Rosovsky sizes up the state of educational at Harvard. And he thinks it looks pretty good...