Word: smacks
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...Skate! 'Tis the holiday season - which means it's time to strap on a pair of blades, fall smack on your bum many times, then reward yourself with hot chocolate. Chicago has free entry at its rinks through Feb. 28, 2009, with skate rentals running about $5. (See 10 things to do in Chicago.) In Santa Monica, Calif., you can go from the beach to the ice rink (5th Street and Arizona Avenue, two blocks from the Third Street Promenade outdoor mall), for a surreal transition. The $10 admission through Jan. 19, 2009 includes skate rental. (See 10 things...
...understated, consensual style will play well in Beijing, and he will probably try to get China into big-power clubs such as the G-8. Yet the combination of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress may mean China hawks on Capitol Hill will feel bold enough to smack Beijing on Tibet and other human-rights issues...
...Bolaño moved to Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...
...albums have evolved into institutions of their own—even that commercial joke and critical gaff, 1970’s “Self Portrait,” looms mythic in the catalogues of completists—and the Bootleg albums that deal explicitly with rarities and outtakes smack, to casual listeners, of revisionism and recycling. And to that same extent, those listeners are right. The man’s catalogue is simply too labyrinthine, too inscrutable, too fascinating to begin with anything but the undisputed classics: “Highway 61 Revisited...