Word: smacking
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Dukakis' New England ties mask a major disadvantage: his circumscribed career has brought him no closer to foreign policy than his morning newspaper. Dukakis' positions, which are still hazy, smack more of Harvard than of the heartland, which may be a problem in the South. He opposes the President's policies in Central America and on Star Wars but has yet to offer a positive program other than wispy references to world peace. Nonetheless, Dukakis' pragmatic liberalism is appealing to a party searching for a post-Reagan philosophy. Pollster Geoffrey Garin contends that Dukakis is the only Democrat able...
...Smack. Everyone looked...
...there are lapses. The film's wonderfully orchestrated car chases do linger on, and red-neck ribaldry can pale after a while, and maybe Glen shouldn't have to run smack into a cactus. But who can blame the Coens for blowing up their tale into conventionally funny shapes? Besides, as the brothers demonstrate at the climax, round is funny too. And more than a little poignant. The plot circles back to the quints' nursery, and then to the McDonnoughs' bedroom, where Hi has the strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle...
...with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with a delegation of conservative Senators, he listed as his legislative priorities the deployment of Star Wars, a balanced-budget amendment and prohibition of abortion. While that may be an agenda that does not smack of compromise, it is also one that does not hold much promise of achievement...
While they shuffle through the orderly single-file maze of the serving line, we twirl spastically from one tub to another, careening around arms and flailing scoops to finally smack cups onto the counter, then pivot to the register, ducking around cone-wielding scoopers. It's a sport more intricate than basketball, with the interesting complication that the other team is working with the wrong set of rules...