Word: smacks
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...classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Thinking Fellers Local Union #282, Sun City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...
EVEN WHILE THE 102ND CONGRESS RACED TO ADjourn for the campaign finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote...
James is a brave writer, and he pushes his stereotypes to grotesque limits. At an all-Black school, for example, "throngs of students congest the corridor smoking resinous Rasta spliffs, snorting smack from tiny, waxed-paper sacks; drinking pints of Wild Irish Rose; sucking tubes of crack; fighting with razors; firing pistols; dry-humping each other against lockers; hawking stolen goods; miscarrying half-formed fetuses; singing gospel; and wailing the blues...
PROPONENTS of diversity will challenge the principles behind my proposals. Rather than merely promote bodybuilding excellence among a select elite, they would argue, the MAC should strive to include students of all skill levels and backgrounds. To do otherwise would smack a Buchanan-like nativism, even fascism...