Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over drinks, your client shares a disturbing bit of news. The bid you have been helping him prepare for construction of the new city hall is a sure winner because he has arranged to slip the mayor $10,000. You choke on an hors d'oeuvre, pondering the lawyer's age-old dilemma: what to do about a client who admits to being involved in an ongoing crime...
...never succeed, the young Vice President flees to an Adirondack mountaintop: "The clouds parted unexpectedly, sunshine poured down on his head, and for a few moments a world of trees and mountains and sparkling water lay all around him . . . below a ranger was approaching, running, clutching the yellow slip of a telegram. Instinctively, he knew the message the man was bringing...
...title, Savage/Love, suggests the play's dualism; two words, joined and separated by the slash, are flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...
...yesterday, the Democrats set to work at making political capital out of the slip...
...labor costs are rising by a modest 5½% a year. Britain, said Tory Leader Cecil Parkinson, was "a very safe place to keep your money secure." If necessary, the Prime Minister will make the message clearer. After saving the Falklands, Thatcher hardly seemed likely to let the pound slip out of control...