Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unacceptable shift," snapped Socialist Chancellor Franz Vranitzky. He was referring to an abrupt rightward lurch by his conservative coalition partner, Austria's Freedom Party, which had just elected Jorg Haider, 36, as party chairman. With that, Vranitzky called for snap elections in November...
...been a frequent target of Schmidt's sharp tongue. He once described Jimmy Carter as a "faith healer" who made "policy from the pulpit." Schmidt resented economic lectures from American officials. "Not only is your inflation higher than ours," he would snap, "your unemployment rate is twice as high...
...thing has never been a snap to get right. Walter Cronkite liked to end his nightly broadcast with the avuncular "That's the way it is." The current network anchors have all been settling for run-of-the-mouth good-nights or see-you-tomorrows. But this month CBS's Dan Rather started signing off with the exhortation "Courage," and the last word on his lips suddenly became the first thing on everyone's mind. To some it sounded intrusive, even bossy, the sort of thing an earnest, not very close friend might say uneasily to end a chance meeting...
...mausoleum, as an ironic counterpoint to Homeless, sung a cappella with South African Gospel Group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The rhythms washing over Graceland are infectious and inflective enough to shame rap silly, from the lovely, funky arc of Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes to the spooky snap of The Boy in the Bubble. African musicians appear on nine of the album's eleven tracks, but Simon has pulled off something much more here than a little groovy ethnomusicology. He has found a new wellspring for his own writing and a pipeline for African music, from inside a country...
...years ago, she good-naturedly gloats, "When I said it was going to be a major market, people laughed at me." Indeed, Caplan has the last laugh: she now ships 150 to 200 items all over the country at any given time. Besides such novelty vegetables as sugar-snap peas, pearl onions and spaghetti squash, she stocks Asian pears from Japan, loquats from Chile and Mexican Burro bananas. Inspired by her success with the kiwi, Caplan has gone back to New Zealand for tamarillos (tart, egg-shaped tree tomatoes), pepinos (purple-striped golden melons with a silken texture...