Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commercialism prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission," the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included on the album are the songs Ceausescu Flashback; Look What I Stole for Us, Darling; and More Smack, Vicar...
...everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the air before they were convicted of anything." Perhaps the real crime, the one , for which Reubens has been so relentlessly pilloried, was the successful pretense of childishness. The kids always knew he was playing, but, evidently, not many adults did. Ordinary show-business thugs and malefactors can get away with...
...sure he hopes there'll be no one to challenge his ideas for the next couple of months. He does have some good ones, and deserves credit for them. But even though he couches them in conciliatory rhetoric, many of his plans smack of the same xenophobic economic isolationism that American politicians tend to gravitate towards in bleak economic times...
True enough, the tanks and armored cars got tangled up with civilian vehicles. These mostly were driven by Iraqi soldiers bugging out from Kuwait City, carrying along staggering loads of loot and Kuwaiti civilians apparently to be used as hostages; the troopers unwittingly drove smack into a bigger battle than the one they were fleeing. After the war, correspondents did find some cars and trucks with burned bodies, but also many vehicles that had been abandoned. Their occupants had fled on foot, and the American planes often did not fire at them. That some Kuwaiti civilians who had been kidnapped...
...East and West officially proclaimed the end of the cold war at the Paris summit last week, the once unthinkable happened: a Soviet armored vehicle roared across what used to be the Iron Curtain smack into downtown Berlin. Following an argument with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old Soviet soldier from a base in Elstal, west of Berlin, had decided to cool off by taking his ACRV M-1974 artillery-command and reconnaissance vehicle for a spin. About 16 miles down the road, he rumbled into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars...